The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, "In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Those [presidents] who were strongest intellectually were also strongest spiritually.

I dont think that unless a greater effort is made by the Government to win popular support that the war can be won out there. In the final analysis, it is their war. They are the ones who have to win it or lose it. We can help them, we can give them equipment, we can send our men out there as advisers, but they have to win it, the people of Viet-Nam, against the Communists.