The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

...Since 1775 the United States Marines have upheld a fine tradition of service to their country. They are doing so today. I am confident they will continue to do so.

People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.

Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant.

I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust.

The American people want their government to act, and not merely to talk, whenever and wherever there is a threat to world peace.

Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy.