From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out.

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

No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.

Public opinion wins wars.

No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry.

We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security.