At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want... for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.

I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.

The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.

We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night.