Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

The light has gone out of our lives... Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light... and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it... For that light represented the living truth.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Remember always that there not so very much difference between various people as we seem to imagine. Maps and atlases show us countries in different colors. Undoubtedly people do differ from one another, but they resemble each other also a great deal, and it is well to keep this in mind and not misled by colors on the map or by national boundaries.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.