I've had a few setbacks in my life, but I never gave up.

There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

I believe in the brotherhood of man, not merely the brotherhood of white men but the brotherhood of all men before law.

Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty. The external threat to liberty should not drive us into suppressing liberty at home. Those who want the government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.