As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.

Pessimism never won any battle.

The world no longer has a choice between force and law; if civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.

And they can appreciate, through personal experience, that the really decisive battleground of American freedom is in the hearts and minds of our own people... Each day we must ask that Almighty God will set and keep His protecting hand over us so that we may pass on to those who come after us the heritage of a free people, secure in their God-given rights and in full control of a Government dedicated to the preservation of those rights.

When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.