We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.
To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.