It is to the United States that all freemen look for the light and the hope of the world. Unless we dedicate ourselves completely to this struggle, unless we combat hunger with food, fear with trust, suspicion with faith, fraud with justice - and threats with power, nations will surrender to the futility, the hopelessness, the panic on which wars feed.

We are dealing with veterans, not procedures; with their problems, not ours.

The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy. ... Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world.

I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes.

Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.

In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.

The second best decision in time is infinitely better than the perfect decision too late.