The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.