Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give the fullest freedom for activities of private persons and groups who often identify their own interests, essentially selfish, with the general welfare.

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

The United States is not a nation of people which in the long run allows itself to be pushed around.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit.