What makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.

It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.

One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.

The greatest contribution Vietnam is making-right or wrong is beside the point-is that it is developing an ability in the United States to fight a limited war, to go to war without the necessity of arousing the public ire.

Action should be founded on contemplation, and those of us who act don't put enough time, don't give enough emphasis, to contemplation.

Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.