Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.

No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

I hope that you have re-read the Constitution of the United States in these past few weeks. Like the Bible, it ought to be read again and again.

Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.