We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face.

If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

The United States of America does not have friends; it has interests.

The Soviets sought not a place in the sun, but the sun itself. Their objective was the world. They would not tolerate compromise on goals, only on tactics.

The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression

A peaceful world is a world in which differences are tolerated, and are not eliminated by violence.

Grace is a free gift from God.

Reason is the presupposition of faith, and faith is the fulfillment of reason.

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

Your best T-shirt should be like your bed, it just feels like you are home when you are in it.

Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing.

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.

I’m not producing movies to make money