We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.

Inquisitiveness is the most useful talent.

My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.

I am ... willing to make it clear that American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the cornerstone on which all relations between nations must rest.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

It has always seemed to me that the best symbol of common sense was a bridge.

Perfectionism, no less than isolationism or imperialism or power politics, may obstruct the paths to international peace. Let us not forget that the retreat to isolationism a quarter of a century ago was started not by a direct attack against international cooperation but against the alleged imperfections of the peace.