Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.

I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.

If people get together, so eventually will nations.

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.