With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be any danger of our government running America in the wrong way.

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead.

The second best decision in time is infinitely better than the perfect decision too late.

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

It is to the United States that all freemen look for the light and the hope of the world. Unless we dedicate ourselves completely to this struggle, unless we combat hunger with food, fear with trust, suspicion with faith, fraud with justice - and threats with power, nations will surrender to the futility, the hopelessness, the panic on which wars feed.

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.