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. To preserve his freedom of worship, his equality before law, his liberty to speak and act as he sees fit, subject only to provisions that he trespass not upon similar rights of others - a Londoner will fight. So will a citizen of Abilene. When we consider these things, then the valley of the Thames draws closer to the farms of Kansas and the plains of Texas.

We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

In the highest sense the Bible is to us the unique repository of eternal spiritual truths.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.