Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon.

Since the advent of nuclear weapons, it seems clear that there is no longer any alternative to peace, if there is to be a happy and well world.

There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce.

For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!

I assure you that it is our desire and intention to keep the doors of consultation always and fully open. There must never be a final word between friends.

And they can appreciate, through personal experience, that the really decisive battleground of American freedom is in the hearts and minds of our own people... Each day we must ask that Almighty God will set and keep His protecting hand over us so that we may pass on to those who come after us the heritage of a free people, secure in their God-given rights and in full control of a Government dedicated to the preservation of those rights.