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

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Despite the present, temporary interests that Israel has in common with France and Britain, you ought not to forget that the strength of Israel and her future are bound up with the United States.

Arms alone can give the world no permanent peace, no confident security. Arms are solely for defense - to protect from violent assault what we already have. They are only a costly insurance. They cannot add to human progress.

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

As our heart summons our strength, our wisdom must direct it.