There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.

The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it.

The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.

You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to fall back into the rut if inertia, the confusion of aim and the craven fear of being great.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts.

Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.