The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.

Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.

We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity.

If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world.

Every age is an unknown country.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed)