I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy].

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.

[Not achieving a nuclear test ban] would have to be classed as the greatest disappointment of any administration of any decade, of any time and of any party.