It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of Cuban military and paramilitary forces on the island.

It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of Cuban military and paramilitary forces on the island.

With all this talk about the supposed strain in relations [with the Soviet Union], there is an inference that somehow it is our fault. But we didn't kill Russian civilians by shooting down a civilian airplane. We didn't attempt to conquer an adjacent country to ours. We didn't walk out on negotiations and refuse to give a date for when we would resume.

I sometimes think Adam and Eve were Russians. They didn't have a roof over their head, nothing to wear, but they had one apple between them and they thought that was Paradise.

It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace between the Greek city-states. And in those days, even if a war was going on, they called off the war in order to hold the Games. I wish we were still as civilized.

The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars.

When PLO sniper fire is followed by 14 hours of Israeli bombardment, that's stretching the definition of defensive action too far.

I'm beginning to wonder if the symbol of the United States pretty soon isn't going to be an ambassador with a flag under his arm climbing into an escape helicopter.

We have to realize that this country in its private sector has been fighting the most successful war on poverty the world has seen for the last 200 years.

While other [military] alliances have been formed to win wars, our fundamental purpose is to prevent war while preserving and extending the frontiers of freedom.

The signs of the Vietnam War protestors said "Make Love not War!" It didn't seem to me that they were capable of either.

I think all of us are agreed that war is probably man's greatest stupidity and I think peace is the dream that lives in the heart of everyone wherever he may be in the world, but unfortunately, unlike a family quarrel, it doesn't take two to make a war. It only takes one, unless the other one is prepared to surrender at the first hint of force.

America has never gotten in a war because we were too strong.

I have seen the rise and fall of Nazi tyranny, the subsequent cold war and the nuclear nightmare that for fifty years haunted the dreams of children everywhere. During that time my generation defeated totalitarianism. As a result, your world is poised for better tomorrows. What will you do on your journey?

We should declare war on North Vietnam - we could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people's democracy. It's the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.