A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not cloth ...

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

May we, in our dealings with all the peoples of the earth, ever speak the truth and serve justice.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.