Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

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.

I think one difficulty is that the problem is one of such enormous complexity that the very mass of facts presented to the public by press and radio make it exceedingly difficult for the man in the street to reach a clear appraisement of the situation. It is virtually impossible at this distance to grasp at all the real significance of the situation.

If you get the objectives right, a lieutenant can write the strategy.

The patient is sinking while the doctors deliberate.

Discussions without end have been devoted to the subject of peace, and the efforts to obtain a general and lasting peace have been frequent through many years of world history.

Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.