We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security.
Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply held religious belief – and I don’t care what it is.
Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders.
Remember that it is not by a tyrant’s words, but only by his deeds that we can know him.
Peace is more the product of our day-to-day living than of a spectacular program, intermittently executed.
A voter without a ballot is like a soldier without a bullet.
Any survey of the free world’s defense structure cannot fail to impart a feeling of regret that so much of our effort and resources must be devoted to armaments.
We reject any idea that one race of people is in any way better than another.
Fortunately for us and our world, young people are not easily discouraged. The hopes of the world rest on the fresh outlook of young people.
First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. This lesson we learned in World War II. I lived that lesson in Europe. Others lived it in the Pacific. Millions of American veterans learned it well.
I have no use for those- regardless of their political party- who hold some foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when unorganized labor was a huddled, almost helpless mass.
America’s leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment.
The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength-and strength alone.
From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our Nation and our people to the Almighty.
God, I hate the Germans...
That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing; the dash, the ingenuity, the readiness at the first opportunity that characterizes the American soldier.
People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.
There is – in world affairs – a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.