Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.