Religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state.

Now we're living in a nuclear age, and the science that was supposed to be automatically for human welfare has become a nuclear - a science that gives us nuclear weapons. This is the ironic character of human history, and of human existence, which I can only explain, if I say so, in Biblical terms. Now I don't mean by this reason that I will accept every interpretation of Christianity that's derived from the Bible as many people wouldn't accept my interpretation. But that's what it means for me.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.

We have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into this terrible war.

I'm not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.