All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by our time, our place, our civilization.

Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.

Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity.

Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created

When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't blame Soviet intransigence. They blamed the United States.