Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.

The United States pledges before you-and therefore before the world-its determination to help solve the fearful atomic dilemma-to devote its entire heart and mind to find the way by which the miraculous inventiveness of man shall not be dedicated to his death, but consecrated to his life.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal.

The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow.