The supreme belief of our society is the dignity and freedom of the individual. To the respect of that dignity, to the defense of that freedom, all effort is pledged.

And now, as in no other age, we seek it [peace] because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out.

People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.

I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.