When asked what I am most proud of, I stick out my chest, hold my head high and state proudly, 'I served in the United States Navy!'

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

Now, as never before, hundreds of millions of men and women-who had formerly believed that stoic resignation in the face of hunger and disease and darkness was the best one could could do-have come alive with a new sense that the means are at hand with which to make for themselves a better life.

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.

The world has been close to war before - but now man, who has survived all previous threats to his existence, has taken into his mortal hands the power to exterminate the entire species some seven times over.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.