“The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.”

“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. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”

“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...”

“The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.”

“The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.”

“Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.”

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