I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Well, a funny thing, there are three that I like all for the same reason, golf, fishing, and shooting, and I do because first, they take you into the fields. There is mild exercise, the kind that an older individual probably should have. And on top of it, it induces you to take at any one time 2 or 3 hours, if you can, where you are thinking of the bird or that ball or the wily trout. Now, to my mind it is a very healthful, beneficial kind of thing, and I do it whenever I get a chance, as you well know.

A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations.