Arms alone can give the world no permanent peace, no confident security. Arms are solely for defense - to protect from violent assault what we already have. They are only a costly insurance. They cannot add to human progress.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.

...the exchange of students...should be vastly expanded...Information and education are powerful forces in support of peace. Just as war begins in the minds of men, so does peace.

Guns and tanks and planes are nothing unless there is a solid spirit, a solid heart, and great productiveness behind it.

"In the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love."

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.