A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too.

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

Since becoming President, I have come to know that the finest of Americans we have abroad today are the missionaries of the cross. I am humiliated that I am not finding this out until this late day the worth of foreign missions and the nobility of the missionaries.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.

More than just an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.

The traditional Jeffersonian principle of religious freedom was so broadly democratic that it included the right to have no religion at all - it gave to the individual the right to worship any God he chose or no god.