If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

Character isn't inherited.

Democracy cannot long survive when the people permit their lives to be dominated - economically or politically - by a powerful few.

If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

if we pursue the arms race no other problem will be solved.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

If you tell me that there are obstacles in the way of your ambition that make it impossible to pursue, then I know it's not a real ambition. There are always obstacles. The 'perversity of events,' as someone once called it, is always ready to lick us. Events are never right for achieving what we most want to achieve. If this were not so, there would be no real fun in being 17 -- or even in being alive.