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

Freedom & Duty always go hand in hand and if the free do not accept the duty of social responsibility, they will not long remain free.

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.

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 United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

Forgive everybody everything everyday.