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

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

I ask particularly that those of you who are now in school will prepare yourselves to bear the burden of leadership over the next 40 years here in the United States, and make sure that the United States - which I believe almost alone has maintained watch and ward for freedom - that the United States meet its responsibility. That is a wonderful challenge for us as a people.

The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, 'What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.'

Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.

Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.

A committee is twelve men doing the work of one.