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

Our institutions of freedom will not survive unless they are constantly replenished by the faith that gave them birth.

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.

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

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

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.

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