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

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

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

The mark of a successful organization isn't whether or not it has problems, its whether it has the same problems it had last year.

A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.

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.

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.