Dependability, integrity, the characteristic of never knowingly doing anything wrong, that you would never cheat anyone, that you would give everybody a fair deal. Character is a sort of an all-inclusive thing. If a man has character, everyone has confidence in him.

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.

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.

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

It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.

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

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