We the people, elect leaders not to rule but to serve

The president cannot escape from his office.

The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences.

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

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

The speed, accuracy and devastating power of American Artillery won confidence and admiration from the troops it supported and inspired fear and respect in their enemy.