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

The United Nations represents not a final stage in the development of world order, but only a primitive stage. Therefore its primary task is to create the conditions which will make possible a more highly developed organization.

The U.S. has no friends, only interests.

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

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

Peace will never be won if men reserve for war their greatest efforts, Peace, too, requires well-directed and sustained sacrificial endeavor. Given that, we can, I believe, achieve the great goal of our foreign policy, that of enabling our people to enjoy in peace the blessings of liberty.

Our institutions of freedom will not survive unless they are constantly replenished by the faith that gave them birth.