Our goal must be not peace in our time, but peace for all time.

We must earn the peace we seek just as we earned victory in the war, not by wishful thinking but by realistic effort. At no time in our history has unity among our people been so vital as it is at the present time. Unity of purpose, unity of effort, and unity of spirit are essential to accomplish the task before us.

I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.

When we refused to be forced out of Berlin, we demonstrated to the people of Europe that with their cooperation we would act, and act resolutely, when their freedom was threatened.

A society will be judged by how it treats its weakest members

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.