No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

Freedom is not a tea party, India. Freedom is a war.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

Our democracy is threatened whenever we take it for granted.

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited . . . What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations.

Freedom is often the first casualty of war.

A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.

But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of the central government.

Freedom is never very safe.

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.

War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.

Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for the rule of law.