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

The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.

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

I walk where I choose to walk.

Dissent... is a right essential to any concept of the dignity and freedom of the individual; it is essential to the search for truth in a world wherein no authority is infallible.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

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.