You know, I know, all of us know that the time factor is the vital consideration - and vital is the correct meaning of the term - of our national defense program; that we must never be caught in the same situation we found ourselves in 1917.

The United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace.

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.

We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, Our Flag will be recognized throughout the World as a symbol of Freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other.

As to my political faith- I have never voted. My father was a Democrat, my mother a Republican, and I am an Episcopalian.

When a general complains of the morale of his troops, the time has come to look at his own.

The choice is between acting with energy or losing by default.