This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas

Let us examine our attitude toward peace itself. Too many of us think it is impossible. Too many think it unreal. But that is a dangerous, defeatist belief. It leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable, that mankind is doomed, that we are gripped by forces we cannot control. We need not accept that view. Our problems are manmade; therefore they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as be wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.

We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect.

I'm an idealist without illusions.

Diplomacy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone would fail.