The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith.

I have no use for those- regardless of their political party- who hold some foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when unorganized labor was a huddled, almost helpless mass.

In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and the dignity of all people, the futility and stupidity of war, its destructiveness of life and its degradation of human values.

Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply held religious belief - and I don't care what it is.