Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable

The way in which you endure that which you must endure is more important than the crisis itself.

I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.

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.

You members of this Conference are to be the architects of the better world. In your hands rests our future.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.