They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

There is very little that our government or any government can do to plant the seeds of international understanding in the hearts and minds of people around the world. If people by the millions can reach out their hands in friendship and communicate directly warmth, personal interest and respect, it will be a real beginning in the struggle for a peaceful world.

If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest.