We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

I was greatly influenced by one of my teachers. She had a zeal not so much for perfection as for steady betterment-she demanded not excellence so much as integrity.

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.