For all that we cherish and justly desire - for ourselves or for our children - the securing of peace is the first requisite.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.

Memory should be the starting point of the present.

... The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If you will take the power you have and use it, I have no fear of the outcome of the future.

There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.