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

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

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.

We do not keep security establishments merely to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. We keep the security forces to defend a way of life.

Only Americans can hurt America.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

You can decide to invade Russia at dinner, pick Waterloo for battle on a whim. It's the details, the small stuff. Its easy to gamble a million lives. Whats hard is to see how that can hurt one single person. And if you cant keep that straight, hell, you'll lose your humanity.