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

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

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

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

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

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.