There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Every leader should have enough humility to accept, publicly, the responsibility for the mistakes of the subordinates he has himself selected and, likewise, to give them credit, publicly, for their triumphs.

We merely want to live in peace with all the world.

I believe we must be strong militarily, but beyond a certain point military strength can become a national weakness.

We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice.