Equal Justice Under The Law. That is a great goal. But that goal has not been realized.

It is never easy to define what is moral, particularly in foreign policy. But at the risk of being simplistic, it appears to me that a foreign policy that is morally right protects human rights everywhere.

Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.

The greatest right of a civilized person is to be left alone, unless he does harm to others or is threatening to do harm to himself.

Equal Justice Under The Law. That is a great goal. But that goal has not been realized.

Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.

It is fundamental that the great powers of Congress to conduct war and to regulate the Nation's foreign relations are subject to the constitutional requirements of due process. The imperative necessity for safeguarding these rights to procedural due process under the gravest of emergencies has existed throughout our constitutional history, for it is then, under the pressing exigencies of crisis, that there is the greatest temptation to dispense with fundamental constitutional guarantees which, it is feared, will inhibit governmental action.