The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

No man can always be right. So the struggle is to do one's best, to keep the brain and conscience clear, never be swayed by unworthy motives or inconsequential reasons, but to strive to unearth the basic factors involved, then do one's duty.

We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong.

You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner things - call them what you will - I mean those intangibles that are the real treasures free men possess.

Well, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal rights.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.