And this is the time. It is the time for this land to become again a witness to the world for what is noble and just in human affairs. It is the time to live more with faith and less with fear- with an abiding confidence that can sweep away the strongest barriers between us and teach us that we truly are brothers and sisters.

There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.

When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.

A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.

If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq.

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.