The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.

Education is a slow moving but powerful force

It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.

As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.

The preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed or fail in directing the enormous power of human knowledge to the enrichment of our own lives and the shaping of a rational and civilized world order....It is the task of education, more than any other instrument of foreign policy to help close the dangerous gap between the economic and technological interdependence of the people of the world and their psychological, political and spiritual alienation.

A nation's budget is full of moral implications; it tells what a society cares about and what it does not care about; it tells what its values are.

The junior Senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatred of uninformed and credulous people that he has started a prairie fire, which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.