We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

How many people in the United States do you think will be willing to go to war to free Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania?

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

We must be the great arsenal of democracy. For us this is an emergency as serious as war itself. We must apply ourselves to our task with the same resolution, the same sense of urgency, the same spirit of patriotism and sacrifice as we would show were we at war.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.