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

A peaceful world is a world in which differences are tolerated, and are not eliminated by violence.

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.

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

The United States of America does not have friends; it has interests.

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost

There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction