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.

I now know how Tojo felt when he was planning Pearl Harbor.

Democracy is no easy form of government. Few nations have been able to sustain it. For it requires that we take the chances of freedom; that the liberating play of reason be brought to bear on events filled with passion; that dissent be allowed to make its appeal for acceptance; that men chance error in their search for the truth.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.

Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

My views on birth control are somewhat distorted by the fact that I was seventh of nine children.