Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.

But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights - by attempting to placate aggression.

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.

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

When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.

I oppose the war in Vietnam because I love America. I speak out against it not in anger but with anxiety and sorrow in my heart, and above all with a passionate desire to see our beloved country stand as a moral example of the world.