There is very little that our government or any government can do to plant the seeds of international understanding in the hearts and minds of people around the world. If people by the millions can reach out their hands in friendship and communicate directly warmth, personal interest and respect, it will be a real beginning in the struggle for a peaceful world.

We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest.

The only things worth counting on are people you can count on.

The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.

To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.

Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.