The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities ... We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

Never be more scared of the enemy than you think he is of you.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

If you are waging peace, you can't be too particular sometimes about the special attitudes that different countries take. We were a young country once, and our whole policy for the first 150 years was, we were neutral.