We know something of the cost of that war. We were in it from December seventh, '41, till August of '45. Ever since that time, we have been waging peace. It has had its ups and downs just as the war did.

In vast stretches of the earth, men awoke today in hunger. They will spend the day in unceasing toil. And as the sun goes down they will still know hunger. They will see suffering in the eyes of their children. Many despair that their labor will ever decently shelter their families or protect them against disease. So long as this is so, peace and freedom will be in danger throughout our world. For wherever free men lose hope of progress, liberty will be weakened and the seeds of conflict will be sown.

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.

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

Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.