Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

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

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.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

It is not more bigness that should be our goal. We must attempt, rather, to bring people back to...the warmth of community, to the worth of individual effort and responsibility...and of individuals working together as a community, to better their lives and their children's future.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.

Each nation has different obstacles and different goals, shaped by the vagaries of history and of experience. Yet as I talk to young people around the world I am impressed not by the diversity but by the closeness of their goals, their desires and their concerns and their hope for the future.