The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.

There is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title "The Sinews of Peace."

When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.

[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.

Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.