Louis A. Johnson Quotations

In the light of the actual fighting that is now in progress, we have reached the point where the military considerations clearly outweigh the fiscal considerations.

This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an invitation to disaster for America.

Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense.

The advance guard in the campaign for peace that America wages today must be the State Department.

To the limit the present law allows, I promise you there will be unification as rapidly as the efficiency of the service permits it.