... The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If you will take the power you have and use it, I have no fear of the outcome of the future.

The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.

And they can appreciate, through personal experience, that the really decisive battleground of American freedom is in the hearts and minds of our own people... Each day we must ask that Almighty God will set and keep His protecting hand over us so that we may pass on to those who come after us the heritage of a free people, secure in their God-given rights and in full control of a Government dedicated to the preservation of those rights.

My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty.

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.

Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the genius [of] our scientists.

It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.