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

Freedom & Duty always go hand in hand and if the free do not accept the duty of social responsibility, they will not long remain free.

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

Economic and military power can be developed under the spur of laws and appropriations. But moral power does not derive from any act of Congress. It depends on the relations of a people to their God. It is the churches to which we must look to develop the resources for the great moral offensive that is required to make human rights secure, and to win a just and lasting peace.

I'm making progress if today's problems are different from yesterday's.

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.

Our institutions of freedom will not survive unless they are constantly replenished by the faith that gave them birth.