This Operation Is Not Being Planned With

I Think That People Want Peace So Much That One Of These Days Government Had Better Get Out Of Their Way And Let Them Have It.

We Do Not Keep Security Establishments Merely To Defend Property Or Territory Or Rights Abroad Or At Sea. We Keep The Security Forces To Defend A Way Of Life.

If Berlin Fell, The Us Would Lose Europe, And If Europe Fell Into The Hands Of The Soviet Union And Thus Added Its Great Industrial Plant To The Ussr's Already Great Industrial Plant, The United States Would Be Reduced To The Character Of A Garrison State If It Were To Survive At All.

I Feel Impelled To Speak Today In A Language That In A Sense Is New-one Which I, Who Have Spent So Much Of My Life In The Military Profession, Would Have Preferred Never To Use. That New Language Is The Language Of Atomic Warfare.

A Preventive War, To My Mind, Is An Impossibility Today. How Could You Have One If One Of Its Features Would Be Several Cities Lying In Ruins, Several Cities Where Many, Many Thousands Of People Would Be Dead And Injured And Mangled, The Transportation Systems Destroyed, Sanitation Implements And Systems All Gone? That Isn't Preventive War; That Is War.