If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

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

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

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

... we have been warned by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself ... There must be law, steadily invoked and respected by all nations, for without law, the world promises only such meager justice as the pity of the strong upon the weak.

Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master.