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

I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.

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

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer.

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

It is not realistic or hard-headed to solve problems and take action unguided by ultimate moral aims and values, although we all know some who claim that it is so. In my judgement, it is thoughtless folly. For it ignores the realities of human faith and of passion and of belief; forces ultimately more powerful than all the calculations of our economists or of our generals. Of course to adhere to standards, to idealism, to vision in the face of immediate dangers takes great courage and takes self-confidence. But we also know that only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.