Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.

I feel quite sure that what the American people lack is knowledge.

Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human beings... their importance, their dignity... and agreed that was the basic thing that had to be accepted throughout the world.

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

You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.