We do not want an official state church. If ninety-nine percent of the population were Catholics, I would still be opposed to it. I do not want civil power combined with religious power. I want to make it clear that I am committed as a matter of deep personal conviction to separation.

Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.

While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace.

Automation does not need to be our enemy. I think machines can make life easier for men, if men do not let the machines dominate them.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Never before has man had such a great capacity to control his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and human misery. We have the power to make the best generation of mankind in the history of the world.

Whether they be young in spirit, or young in age, the members of the Democratic Party must never lose that youthful zest for new ideas and for a better world, which has made us great.