Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
War settles nothing.
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
The sergeant is the Army.
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.
The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.