We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.

What is wrong is not the great discoveries of science—information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance. What is wrong is the belief behind the information, the belief that information will change the world. It won’t.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only, that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.

The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty.

If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.

The map of America is a map of endlessness, of opening out, of forever and ever. No man's face would make you think of it but his hope might, his courage might.