As for myself and for the Secretary of State and others involved, including those in the Legislature, we stand ready to do anything, to meet with anyone, anywhere, as long as we may do so in self-respect, demanding the respect due this Nation, and there is any slightest idea or chance of furthering this great cause of peace.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know.

In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice.

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

So - our readiness to meet and defeat this kind of possible attack is forced upon us, both as a potent preventive of actual war and to insure survival in event of attack. This alertness to danger has to be translated into specific policies and activities in the several parts of the world where our rights - our way of life - can be seriously damaged. Work of this kind occupies my days and nights.