The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.