Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

It will never be possible for any length of time for any group of the American people, either by reason of wealth or learning or inheritance or economic power, to retain any mandate, any permanent authority to arrogate to itself the political control of American public life.

Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.

Our handicaps exist only in our minds.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.