Settlements may be temporary, but the action of the nations in the interest of peace and justice must be permanent. We can set up permanent processes. We may not be able to set up permanent decisions.

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

If you would be a leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next.

Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

We must believe the things We teach our children

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.