Each generation makes it's own accounting to its children.

The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.

All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.

Only those who have the courage to fail greatly achieve greatly.

What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.

Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair.

Even government by the consent of the governed, as in our own Constitution, must be limited in its power to act against its people; so that there may be no interference with the right to worship, or with the security of the home; no arbitrary imposition of pains or penalties by officials high or low; no restrictions on the freedom of men to seek education or work or opportunity of any kind, so that each man may become all he is capable of becoming.