Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small.

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.

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

I know there is a God - I see the storm coming and I see his hand in it - if he has a place then I am ready - we see the hand.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.