If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.

The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength - and strength alone.

We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security.

Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination.

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

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong.