I believe that it is essential to our leadership in the world and to the development of true democracy in our country to have no discrimination in our country whatsoever. This is most important in the schools of our country.

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

Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new points of view. It is as though people would rather die than change.

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

To a certain extent I don't see any real need for socialism in the United States immediately, but things change and it may be that there will come a need for partial changes in our economy.

I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.