If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression

Somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor.

Forgive everybody everything everyday.

Peace will never be won if men reserve for war their greatest efforts, Peace, too, requires well-directed and sustained sacrificial endeavor. Given that, we can, I believe, achieve the great goal of our foreign policy, that of enabling our people to enjoy in peace the blessings of liberty.

I hope the day will never come when the American nation will be the champion of the status quo. Once that happens, we shall have forfeited, and rightly forfeited, the support of the unsatisfied, of those who are the victims of inevitable imperfections, of those who, young in years or spirit, believe that they can make a better world and of those who dream dreams and want to make their dreams to come true.