Muddy language is not confined to policies alone. Each of you has seen replies to simple questions in which the meaning was lost through hopelessly obscure wording. When a person writes to the Veterans Administration, he is entitled to an easily understood, frank, and courteous reply. If our replies cannot be understood, they are not only not worth writing, but they simply create additional work.

A piece of paper makes you an officer, a radio makes you a commander.

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

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

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

If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be any danger of our government running America in the wrong way.

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.