The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.

I have complete faith in the American people's ability if they know and if they have leadership.

The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had.

To a certain extent I don't see any real need for socialism in the United States immediately, but things change and it may be that there will come a need for partial changes in our economy.

All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we are patriotic in the real sense of the word. ... Outward behavior, while important, is not the real measure of a man's patriotism.

Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.