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

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.

With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism.

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.