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

We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face.

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.

The U.S. has no friends, only interests.

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

In order to bring a nation to support the burdens incident to maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to war psychology. There must be the portrayal of an external menace or of internal conditions rendered intolerable by the unjust restraints of foreign nations. This involves the development to a high degree of the nation-hero nation-villain ideology and the arousing of the population to a sense of the duty of sacrifice.

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