For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

We cannot reform the world.... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock.

Lets talk to one another instead of about one another.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

I have seen in many places housing which has been developed under government influences, but I have never seen any projects in which governments have played their part which have fountains and statues and grass and trees, which are as important to the concept of the home as the roof itself.

Our goal is not victory of might but the vindication of right - not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this hemisphere and, we hope, around the world. God willing, that goal will be achieved.

We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind, that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity, and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.