Peace signifies more than the stilling of guns, easing the sorrow of war. More than escape from death, it is a way of life. More than a haven for the weary, it is a hope for the brave.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

Planning is useless... but the process itself is indispensable.

A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive war; that is war.

In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know.

Without God, there would be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life.

From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our Nation and our people to the Almighty.