Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

He wanted to know what assurance we could give the American people that we aren't getting the tar licked out of us by the North Korean army. It has never happened to us. It won't happen this time.

The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.

Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who have starved and beaten and executed American prisoners of war, against those who have abandoned all pretense of obeying international laws of warfare. We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans.

If we let Korea down, the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after another.

There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war.

This is the first time in my experience... that I ever heard of a Senator trying to discredit his own Government before the world.... Your telegram is not only not true and an insolent approach to a situation that should have been worked out between man and man - but it shows conclusively that you are not even fit to have a hand in the operation of the Government of the United States.

Unless Russia is face with an iron fist and strong language, another is in the making. Only one language do they understand - 'How many divisions have you?' ... I'm tired of babying the Soviets.