It is an unfinished society that we offer the world-a society that is forever committed to change, to improvement and to growth, that will never stagnate in the certitude of ideology or the finalities of dogma.

I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind.

Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.

The Gross National Product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile.

About one month before he was killed, when asked by David Frost how his obituary should read: Something about the fact that I made some contribution to either my country, or those who were less well off. I think back to what Camus wrote about the fact that perhaps this world is a world in which children suffer, but we can lessen the number of suffering children, and if you do not do this, then who will do this? I'd like to feel that I'd done something to lessen that suffering.

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.