There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men can learn to live in peace-eventually even to cooperate in constructive activities rather than compete in a mindless contest of mutual destruction....We must try to expand the boundaries of human wisdom, empathy and perception, and there is no way of doing that except through education.

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts.

It's unnatural and unhealthy for a nation to be engaged in global crusades for some principle or idea while neglecting the needs of its own people.

The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent.

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.