Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong

We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face.

The United States of America does not have friends; it has interests.

Peace can be a cover whereby evil men can perpetrate diabolical wrongs.

The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good

Economic and military power can be developed under the spur of laws and appropriations. But moral power does not derive from any act of Congress. It depends on the relations of a people to their God. It is the churches to which we must look to develop the resources for the great moral offensive that is required to make human rights secure, and to win a just and lasting peace.

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.