It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give any meaning to the efforts at military security.

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.

We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.

The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.

It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.