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.

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

Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, that will determine our destiny. There is pride in that, even arrogance, but there is also experience and truth. In any event, it is the only way we can live.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

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

Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic

The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present