Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

The only significance of analyzing the past is that it does give us some key to the future.

If men and women are in chains anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere.

I look forward to an america in which commands respect throughout the world, not only for its strength, but for its civilization as well. And I look forward to a world in which we will be safe not only for democracy and diversity but also for personal distinction.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment: "Stay, thou art so fair." And our liberty, too, is endangered if we pause for the passing moment, if we rest on our achievements, if we resist the pace of progress. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past are certain to miss the future.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.