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

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems.

Nothing can be controlled by one country today; nothing.

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.

There is no danger is letting people have their say. ... There is a danger when you try to stop them from saying it.