The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities ... We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

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.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

No one should be appointed to political office if he is a seeker after it.

"In the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love."

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.