In the final analysis, the progress of our civilization will be retarded if any large body of citizens falls behind. Without the help of thousands of others, any one of us would die, naked and starved.

Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.

Books cannot be killed by fire.

A nation, like a person, has a mind - a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the hopes and needs of its neighbors - all the other nations that live within the narrowing circle of the world

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.

As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.