A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.