With respect to the creation of the program, I introduced the bill in September 1945, immediately after the end of the war with Japan, in August of that year. A number of considerations, of course, entered into my decision to introduce the bill, growing from my own experience as a Rhodes scholar and the experiences our government had had with the first Word War debts, [Herbert] Hoover's efforts in establishing the Belgian-American Education Foundation after World War I, [and] the Boxer Rebellion indemnity.

Education is a slow moving but powerful force

"The making of peace is a continuing process that must go on from day to day, from year to year, so long as our civilization shall last."

Education is a slow-moving but powerful force. It may not be fast enough or strong enough to save us from catastrophe, but it is the strongest force available for that purpose and in its proper place, therefore, is not at the periphery, but at the center of international relations.

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.

The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.

To be a statesman, you must first get elected.