We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.

Those of you who have been there [Haiti] know it is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. It has everything. It has everything above the ground, and everything under the ground.... It is an amazing place. I strongly recommend that whenever you get a chance, if you haven't been there, that you go to Haiti. I think it was a certain Queen of England who said that after her death "Calais" would be found written on her heart. When I die, I think that "Haiti" is going to be written on my heart.

That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.

These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days.

The fundamental idea...is that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us.