Diplomacy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone would fail.

Any danger spot is tenable if men—brave men— will make it so.

Great crises produce great men and great deeds of courage.

Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles—or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising “politicians”—are simply engaged in the fine art of conciliating, balancing and interpreting the forces and factions of public opinion, an art essential to keeping our nation united and enabling our Government to function.

Communism has sometimes succeeded as a scavenger, but never as a leader. It has never come to power in any country that was not disrupted by war or internal corruption or both.

In America there must be only citizens, not divided by grade, first and second, but citizens, east, west, north, and south.

Peace and freedom walk together. In too many of our cities today, the peace is not secure because freedom is incomplete.

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope, and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

If men and women are in chains, anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere.