Nothing can be controlled by one country today; nothing.

Such pip-squeaks as Nixon and McCarthy are trying to get us so frightened of Communism that we'll be afraid to turn out the lights at night.

A vigorous democracy a democracy in which there are freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech would never succumb to communism or any other ism.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

if we pursue the arms race no other problem will be solved.

Democracy cannot long survive when the people permit their lives to be dominated - economically or politically - by a powerful few.

The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry rot which eats away at the foundations of our democratic faith.