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

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.

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

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

You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war. Some say that we were brought to the verge of war. Of course we were brought to the verge of war. 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. We've had to look it square in the face... We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face. We took strong action.

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.

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