The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

National isolation breeds national neurosis.

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

What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.

The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.

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