Forests are the lungs of our land.

In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny of every kind.

I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have got are Communists.