The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.