We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

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

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.