The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

... we have been warned by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself ... There must be law, steadily invoked and respected by all nations, for without law, the world promises only such meager justice as the pity of the strong upon the weak.

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

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