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.

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.

A poem should not mean but be.

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

The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.

See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats.