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.

The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen.

People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.