Forgive everybody everything everyday.

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.

Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression

A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.

Somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor.

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost

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