A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

I hope the day will never come when the American nation will be the champion of the status quo. Once that happens, we shall have forfeited, and rightly forfeited, the support of the unsatisfied, of those who are the victims of inevitable imperfections, of those who, young in years or spirit, believe that they can make a better world and of those who dream dreams and want to make their dreams to come true.

There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction

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.

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

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