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.

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

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

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

I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.

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

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.