Change is the law of life and of relations between nations. When two great peoples such as ours, energetic and optimistic, live side by side in all the diversity that freedom offers, change is rapid and brings in its wake problems, sometimes frictions.

Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark... In the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.

Ideas more than once have prevailed against naked power. Guns and aircraft alone do not make a state powerful. Unless force is backed up by the will of the great body of people it loses its meaning.

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.

We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.