Spending on the military doesn't increase the deficit.

[Andrew Jackson] was actually 70 years old when he left the White House

We are not a warlike people. Nor is our history filled with tales of aggressive adventures and imperialism, which might come as a shock to some of the placard painters in our modern demonstrations. The lesson of Vietnam, I think, should be that never again will young Americans be asked to fight and possibly die for a cause unless that cause is so meaningful that we, as a nation, pledge our full resources to achieve victory as quickly as possible.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.