Always try to associate yourself closely with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you. Apart from the rewards of friendship, the association might pay off at some unforeseen time - that is only an accidental byproduct. The important thing is that the learning will make you a better person.

If Berlin fell, the US would lose Europe, and if Europe fell into the hands of the Soviet Union and thus added its great industrial plant to the USSR's already great industrial plant, the United States would be reduced to the character of a garrison state if it were to survive at all.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

It is well for us to pause, to acknowledge our debt to those who paid so large a share of freedom's price.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Before a battle, planning is everything. Once the fighting has begun, it's worthless

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.