Today, America has become one of the most powerful forces for good on earth. We must keep it so.

If you don't have your own goals, you'll be doomed to work toward someone else's.

Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

I consider Monroe a pretty minor president. In spite of the Monroe Doctrine. That's the only important thing he ever did more or less on his own, when you really get down to it.

We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.