Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.

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

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.

I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and I have such strong feelings about what must be done.

In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.

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.

Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.