The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks and not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.

Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power?

A living thing is born.

It is imperative that we should not only master them, but also act upon them, and act very definitely.

...to make the world safe for democracy.

For my part, I am very much more afraid of the man who does a bad thing and does not know it is bad than of the man who does a bad thing and knows it is bad; because I think that in public affairs stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because harder to fight and dislodge.