Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the end, there must remain the question: What kind of life is one society providing to the people that live in it?

National isolation breeds national neurosis.

It is better to gain a foot than to stand still, even when you seek to gain a mile.

We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare.

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