If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government.

Beware the military-industrial complex.

I believe we must be strong militarily, but beyond a certain point military strength can become a national weakness.

To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.

The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.

The seeker is never so popular as the sought. People want what they can't get.

As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith.