In my generation, this was not the first occasion when the strong had attacked the weak.Communism was acting in Korea just as Hitler, Mussolini, and the Japanese had acted ten, fifteen, and twenty years earlier. I felt certain that if South Korea was allowed to fall, Communist leaders would be emboldened to override nations closer to our own shores.

Not every reader is a leader, but every leader must be a reader.

In the long view, no nation is any healthier than its children.

When a High Explosive shell bursts in fifteen feet and does you no damage, you can bet your sweet life you bear a charmed life and no mistake.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

When you have to deal with a beast, you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true.

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