I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.

Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.

I am not interested in the support of anybody who stands for any form of prejudice as to anybody's race or religion. . . . I have no place in my philosophy for such beliefs.

No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.

There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.

And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.

The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.