“There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.”

“I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any treat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.”

“This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: "Only the dead have seen the end of war.”

“Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away”

“Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.”

“We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction”

“I realize that advice is worth what it costs--that is, nothing.”