To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression.

Safety and certainty in oil lie in variety, and variety alone.

Respecting the United Nations as the living sign of all people's hope for peace, we shall strive to make it not merely an eloquent symbol but an effective force. And in our quest for an honorable peace, we shall neither compromise, nor tire, nor ever cease.

You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.

Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England.

The most powerful deterrent to war in the world today lies in the retaliatory power of our Strategic Air Command and the aircraft of our Navy. They present to any potential attacker who would unleash war upon the world the prospect of virtual annihilation of his own country.