The gravity of the time is such that every new avenue of peace, no matter how dimly discernible, should be explored.

Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.

I know only one method of operation: to be as honest with others as I am with myself.

I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States.

We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong.

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

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.