For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

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

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.