Mob rule can not be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.

Leadership is the ability to decide what is to be done and then get others to do it.

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner things - call them what you will - I mean those intangibles that are the real treasures free men possess.

Now this brings me to my main topic - our military strength - more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

The same day I saw my first horror camp, I visited every nook and cranny. I felt it my duty to be in a position from then on to testify about these things in case there ever grew up at home the belief or assumption that the stories of Nazi brutality were just propaganda.

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