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

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

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 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

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

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.

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