Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

The building of such a peace is a bold and solemn purpose. To proclaim it is easy. To serve it will be hard. And to attain it, we must be aware of its full meaning - and ready to pay its full price.

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.

We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner things - call them what you will - I mean those intangibles that are the real treasures free men possess. To preserve his freedom of worship, his equality before law, his liberty to speak and act as he sees fit, subject only to provisions that he trespass not upon similar rights of others - a Londoner will fight. So will a citizen of Abilene. When we consider these things, then the valley of the Thames draws closer to the farms of Kansas and the plains of Texas.