If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.

There is a special charm to journeys undertaken before daybreak in hot lands: the air is soft and cool and the coming of dawn reveals a landscape fresh from the night dew.

I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment.

The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.

Even if you feel fear, you still have to go ahead and do what you believe in.

Freedom must be demanded and defended, by those who have been denied it and by those who are already free.

Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in common human failings.