Always, the objective is to come home again. Home with the battle won.

And finally, in Vietnam, the tide of battle has turned.

And tonight, even as we speak, American men are fighting in a strange land, a half a world away.

I hope that a great historian will soon record the story: of how an ancient nation has emerged from the shadows of its colonial past and from the tragedy of war to become one of the youngest and the most vigorous constitutional democracies in the world.

Difficult days lie ahead of us in Vietnam, until the Communists change their minds about fighting.

We believe we can win this war against hunger.

Such men today are in Vietnam.

We all want to win this war—not in 90 days, but in 9 days, or 9 hours, or 9 minutes, if we can.

Never before, except in mobilizing for war, I think, has any government made such extensive preparations for any undertaking as we have made in connection with medical care.

We have sought to fight this war with every Federal resource.

That system has met every challenge, in war as in peace.

Their dead by body count is in excess of 10,000.

Our purpose is to demonstrate to the remaining advocates of violence that there is more human profit to be had from peace than there is from war.

I believe that many of the world's nations have since learned the final futility of war.

It is a lesson which we should have learned long ago for it was really one of our Founding Fathers, John Jay, who warned us: 'It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it.'

How sad it is that such great sums must be spent for the bombs and the planes and the gunpowders of war.

There would not be 'total' victory, but there would be 'total' devastation, and the survivors would be jealous of the dead.

Our strength is our surest shelter against war.