The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.

The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all.

The United States pledges before you-and therefore before the world-its determination to help solve the fearful atomic dilemma-to devote its entire heart and mind to find the way by which the miraculous inventiveness of man shall not be dedicated to his death, but consecrated to his life.

And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out.

I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference." (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.