Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but we survived the …

- Stuart Symington

FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he …

- Stuart Symington

My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot about and was fond…

- Stuart Symington

But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy. Everything had to be done over by the Army after it h…

- Stuart Symington

I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budget…

- Stuart Symington

In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret.

- Stuart Symington

If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians.

- Stuart Symington

Later the Administration wanted me to actually sell all remaining surplus by running the War Assets Corporation. I said I couldn't do it without some…

- Stuart Symington

I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do …

- Stuart Symington