Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

The mark of a successful organization isn't whether or not it has problems, its whether it has the same problems it had last year.

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

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

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.

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.