Firmness in support of fundamentals, with flexibility in tactics and methods, is the key to any hope of progress in negotiation.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

If we make ourselves worthy of America's ideals, if we do not forget that our nation was founded on the premise that all men are creatures of God's making, the world will come to know that it is free men who carry forward the true promise of human progress and dignity.

"In the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love."

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.

I know only one method of operation: to be as honest with others as I am with myself.

Why don't you lay the footpaths where the students want to walk?