In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and the dignity of all people, the futility and stupidity of war, its destructiveness of life and its degradation of human values.

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

Never be more scared of the enemy than you think he is of you.

Every leader should have enough humility to accept, publicly, the responsibility for the mistakes of the subordinates he has himself selected and, likewise, to give them credit, publicly, for their triumphs.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

For any American who had the great and priceless privilege of being raised in a small town there always remains with him nostalgic memories... And the older he grows the more he senses what he owed to the simple honesty and neighborliness, the integrity that he saw all around him in those days.

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen.