Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security.

I am not the champion of lost causes, but the champion of causes not yet won.

Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security.

The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the world.

I always get more applause than votes.

There are some plain common-sense considerations applicable to all these attempts at world planning. They can be briefly stated: 1. To talk of blueprints for the future or building a world order is, if properly understood, suggestive, but it is also dangerous. Societies grow far more truly than they are built. A constitution for a new world order is never like a blueprint for a skyscraper.

Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.