We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.

And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out.

Don't join the book burners!

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

Ideas more than once have prevailed against naked power. Guns and aircraft alone do not make a state powerful. Unless force is backed up by the will of the great body of people it loses its meaning.

I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference." (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)