The United States of America does not have friends; it has interests.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

Economic and military power can be developed under the spur of laws and appropriations. But moral power does not derive from any act of Congress. It depends on the relations of a people to their God. It is the churches to which we must look to develop the resources for the great moral offensive that is required to make human rights secure, and to win a just and lasting peace.

I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.

Somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor.

The mark of a successful organization isn't whether or not it has problems, its whether it has the same problems it had last year.