"We could have come to terms with Hitler, and we could have accepted a minor role in his totalitarian world."
"There is no guarantee that opportunity will knock a third time."
"Concern for our national security does not end at our borders."
"Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it."
"I would hate to say how long ago—thirty-some years ago, in the Senate of the State of New York."
"I have unlimited faith that the task can be done."
"I hope to come back here some day and see them play."
"The principle of the neighbor who, resolutely respecting himself, equally respects the rights of others."
"I like to think that the history of the Philippine Islands... provides in a very real sense a pattern for the future of other small Nations and peoples of the world."
"We shall not again be thwarted in our will to live as a mature Nation, confronting limitless horizons."
"This Nation cannot, must not, and will not shirk that responsibility."
"The kind of world order which we the peace-loving Nations must achieve... must depend essentially on friendly human relations."