Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

If we are to go only halfway or reduce our sights in the face of difficulty... it would be better to not go at all.

We shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

But I think it is also important that we pay tribute and acknowledge another great principle, and that is the principle of religious conviction. Religious freedom has no significance unless it is accompanied by conviction.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.