We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.

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

When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

I feel quite sure that what the American people lack is knowledge.

I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.

I do not think I will ever become deadened, because I live in other people's lives, I must admit there are times when it weighs medown because I can't do some of the things I want.

You in the unions do not yet represent all of labor. But I hope some day you will, because I believe that it is through strength, through the fact that people who know what people need are working to make this country a better place for all people, that we will help the world to accept our leadership and understand that, under our form of government and through our way of life, we have something to offer them.