Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.

Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.

No treaty, however much it may be to the advantage of all, however tightly it may be worded, can provide absolute security against the risks of deception and evasion. But it can, if it is sufficiently effective in its enforcement and if it is sufficiently in the interests of its signers, offer far more security and far fewer risks than an unabated, uncontrolled, unpredictable arms race.

Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds can do that.

There is too little public recognition of how much we all depend upon farmers as stewards of our soil, water and wildlife resources.

I do not speak for my church on public matters; and the church does not speak for me.

Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive