"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."

"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield."

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

"Oh, that lovely title, ex-president."

"The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others."

"Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it."

"Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."

"The weak in courage is strong in cunning."