Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

All do not develop in the same manner, or at the same pace. Nations, like men, often march to the beat of different drummers, and the precise solutions of the United States can neither be dictated nor transplanted to others. What is important is that all nations must march toward increasing freedom; toward justice for all; toward a society strong and flexible enough to meet the demands of all its own people, and a world of immense and dizzying change.

Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.

The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.