Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

I have two kinds of problems, the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.

-- John F. Kennedy

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

-- George Washington

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

-- Ronald Reagan