Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

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.

Only Americans can hurt America.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

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

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

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