We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.

It is not enough to take this weapon out of the hands of soldiers. It must be put into the hands of those who will know how to strip its military casing and adapt it to the arts of peace.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States.

I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy].

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.