If, however, there is to be a war of nerves let us make sure our nerves are strong and are fortified by the deepest convictions of our hearts.

Freedom is not only the absence of being in jail, just as it is always said that peace is not merely the absence of war.

This would be a declared total war, not upon any human enemy but upon the brute forces of poverty and need. The peace we seek, founded upon decent trust and cooperative effort among nations, can be fortified, not by weapons of war but by wheat and by cotton, by milk and by wool, by meat and timber and rice.

I wish I could keep war from all Nations; but that is beyond my power. I can at least make certain that no act of the United States helps to produce or to promote war.

Everyone can see how communism rots the soul of a nation. How it makes it abject in peace and proves it abominable in war.

So long as war exists on earth there will be some danger that even the Nation which most ardently desires peace may be drawn into war.