The commitment of government to deal with the population issue is of course essential....There are many ways to make the death rate increase.

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

We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.

In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.

I formed the hypothesis that each of us could have achieved our objectives without the terrible loss of life. And I wanted to test that by going to Vietnam.

General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm!