I am persuaded that the people of the world have no grievances, one against the other. The hopes and desires of a man who tills the soil are about the same whether he lives on the banks of the Colorado or on the banks of the Danube.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.

I wake up 5 a.m. some mornings and hear the planes coming in at National Airport and I think they are bombing me.

The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.

War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world.

In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war; we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.