The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

For all that we cherish and justly desire - for ourselves or for our children - the securing of peace is the first requisite.

My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty.

A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive war; that is war.

Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.