The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

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.

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

The greatest leader in the world could never win a campaign unless he understood the men he had to lead.

We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live.

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

Peace is our goal but preparedness is the price we must pay.