The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.

We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

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

I have said time and again there is no place on this earth to which I would not travel, there is no chore I would not undertake if I had any faintest hope that, by so doing, I would promote the general cause of world peace.

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.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.