When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

Do the best you can do and wait the results in peace.

You are, I am sure, aware that genuine popular support in the United States is required to carry out any Government policy, foreign or domestic. The American people make up their own minds and no governmental action can change it.

You'll have to learn that public life takes a lot of sweat; but it doesn't need to worry you. You won't always be right, but you mustn't suffer from being wrong. That's what kills people like us.

To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians.

Change is like fire- if uncontrolled, it will consume us.

For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching.