The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.

The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.

You never know anyone until you marry them.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

I feel quite sure that the American people, if they have knowledge and leadership, can meet any crisis just as well as they met it over and over again in the past.

True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded.

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.