When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

History is a relentless master. it has no present, only the past rushing into the future. to try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

For time and the world do not stand still. change is the law of life. and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Change is the law of life. and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

There are risks and costs to action. but they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.