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.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

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 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.

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.

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 U.S. has no friends, only interests.