The only thing we have to fear...is audiovisual glitches at our annual event.

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.

A nation, like a person, has a mind - a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the hopes and needs of its neighbors - all the other nations that live within the narrowing circle of the world

We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.

What worries me, especially, is that public opinion over here is patting itself on the back every morning and thanking God for theAtlantic Ocean (and the Pacific Ocean). We greatly underestimate the serious implications to our own future.... Things move with such terrific speed these days, that it is really essential to us to think in broader terms and, in effect, to warn the American people that they, too, should think of possible ultimate results in Europe and the Far East.

Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it.