Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
There is always inequality in life. some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. life is unfair.
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
History is a relentless master. it has no present, only the past rushing into the future. to try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
For time and the world do not stand still. change is the law of life. and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.