Censorship, in my opinion, is a stupid and shallow way of approaching the solution to any problem.

If our founding fathers were alive today, they'd roll over in their graves.

I know only one method of operation: to be as honest with others as I am with myself.

War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.

We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

No one should be appointed to political office if he is a seeker after it.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.