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.

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead.

The nation needs men who think in terms of service to their country and not in terms of their country's debt to them.

Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.

Airpower has become predominant, both as a deterrent to war, and-in the eventuality of war-as the devastating force to destroy an enemy's potential and fatally undermine his will to wage war.

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