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

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

In order to bring a nation to support the burdens incident to maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to war psychology. There must be the portrayal of an external menace or of internal conditions rendered intolerable by the unjust restraints of foreign nations. This involves the development to a high degree of the nation-hero nation-villain ideology and the arousing of the population to a sense of the duty of sacrifice.

Freedom & Duty always go hand in hand and if the free do not accept the duty of social responsibility, they will not long remain free.

A peaceful world is a world in which differences are tolerated, and are not eliminated by violence.

I'm making progress if today's problems are different from yesterday's.

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.