If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

If this nation expects to be ignorant and free it expects what never was and what will never be.

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

To insist on strength is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.

Never let it be said that any enemy of MacGregor ever saw him defenseless and unarmed.

All this is forcing the USSR to fortify the nation's defences. The Soviet people want no arms build-up. What they want is arms reduction on both sides. But we …