Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power?

Once lead this people into war, and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street.

Never for a moment have I had one doubt about my religious beliefs. There are people who believe only so far as they can understand--that seems to me presumptuous and sets their understanding as the standard of the universe.

This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know

Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.

I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.