"In the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love."

May we grow in strength — without pride in self. May we, in our dealings with all peoples of the earth, ever speak truth and serve justice. And so shall America — in the sight of all men of good will — prove true to the honorable purposes that bind and rule us as a people in all this time of trial through which we pass.

Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

I'm for each and against none.

Most things which are urgent are not important, and most things which are important are not urgent.

Freedom from fear and injustice and oppression will be ours only in the measure that men who value such freedom are ready to sustain its possession - to defend it against every thrust from within or without.

Change is the law of life and of relations between nations. When two great peoples such as ours, energetic and optimistic, live side by side in all the diversity that freedom offers, change is rapid and brings in its wake problems, sometimes frictions.