Never be more scared of the enemy than you think he is of you.

We have got to fight it [Communism] with something better, not try to conceal the thinking of our own people. They are part of America. And even if they think ideas that are contrary to ours, their right to say them, their right to record them, and their right to have them at places where they are accessible to others is unquestioned, or it isn't America.

We reject any idea that one race of people is in any way better than another.

Pessimism never won any battle.

Controlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time. The demand for it by the hundreds of millions whose chief concern is the long future of themselves and their children will, I hope, become so universal and so insistent that no man, no government anywhere, can withstand it.

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.