A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

Local defense will always be important. But there is no local defense which alone will contain the mighty land power of the Communist world. Local defense must be reinforced by the further deterrent of massive retaliatory power.

The United Nations represents not a final stage in the development of world order, but only a primitive stage. Therefore its primary task is to create the conditions which will make possible a more highly developed organization.

Peace can be a cover whereby evil men can perpetrate diabolical wrongs.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face.