I believe that without free enterprise there can be no democracy |
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens. |
I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts. |
I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center. |
I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense. |
I don't attempt to be a poker player before this crowd. |
I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare. |
I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built. |
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. |
I have found out in later years [that] we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then. |
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is: Is it good for America? |
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. |
I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea. |
I tell this story to illustrate the truth of the statement I heard long ago in the Army: Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. There is a very great distinction because when you are planning for an emergency you must start with this one thing: the very definition of 'emergency' is that it is unexpected, therefore it is not going to happen the way you are planning. |
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. |