
“We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.”
Act IV
Uncle Vanya (1897)
1963, Third State of the Union Address
“We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.”
Act IV
Uncle Vanya (1897)
1963, Remarks Prepared for Delivery at the Trade Mart in Dallas
“We shall use only peaceful means and we shall not permit any other kind of method.”
Concluding his summary of his government’s approach to boundary settlement at Bandung, with a pledge and a warning "How the Sino-Russian BoundaryConflict Was Finally Settled:From Nerchinsk 1689 to Vladivostok 2005 via Zhenbao Island 1969" by Neville Maxwell http://web.archive.org/web/20110607072751/http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/coe21/publish/no16_2_ses/02_maxwell.pdf.
United Nations Bulletin Vol. XVI, No. 4 (15 February 1954)
1960s, Memorial Day speech (1963)
Closing remarks in court https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGIbb8rY7hQ&feature=youtu.be (1 June 2011)
2010s
1961, Address at the University of Washington
Context: In short, we are neither "warmongers" nor "appeasers," neither "hard" nor "soft." We are Americans, determined to defend the frontiers of freedom, by an honorable peace if peace is possible, but by arms if arms are used against us. And if we are to move forward in that spirit, we shall need all the calm and thoughtful citizens that this great University can produce, all the light they can shed, all the wisdom they can bring to bear. It is customary, both here and around the world, to regard life in the United States as easy. Our advantages are many. But more than any other people on earth, we bear burdens and accept risks unprecedented in their size and their duration, not for ourselves alone but for all who wish to be free.
“We must be prepared to pay the price for peace, or assuredly we shall pay the price of war.”
Special Message to the Congress on the Threat to the Freedom of Europe (1948)
Context: The recommendations I have made represent the most urgent steps toward securing the peace and preventing war. We must be ready to take every wise and necessary step to carry out this great purpose. This will require assistance to other nations. It will require an adequate and balanced military strength. We must be prepared to pay the price for peace, or assuredly we shall pay the price of war. We in the United States remain determined to seek peace by every possible means, a just and honorable basis for the settlement of international issues.