What you do, what each of us does, has an effect on the country, the state, the nation, and the world.

The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Before people will do anything, they have got to eat. And if you are really looking for a way for people to lean on you and to be dependent on you, in terms of their cooperation with you, it seems to me that food dependence would be terrific.

We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.

National isolation breeds national neurosis.

Never answer a question from a farmer.