A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive war; that is war.

The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.

In the highest sense the Bible is to us the unique repository of eternal spiritual truths.

Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the genius [of] our scientists.

I assure you that it is our desire and intention to keep the doors of consultation always and fully open. There must never be a final word between friends.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

I firmly believe that the future of civilization is absolutely dependent upon finding some way of resolving international differences without resorting to war.