If people get together, so eventually will nations.

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.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

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.

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.

Because, therefore, we are defending a way of life, we must be respectful of that way of life as we proceed to the solution of our problem. We must not violate its principles and its precepts, and we must not destroy from within what we are trying to defend from without.