Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.
Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
Each nation has different obstacles and different goals, shaped by the vagaries of history and of experience. Yet as I talk to young people around the world I am impressed not by the diversity but by the closeness of their goals, their desires and their concerns and their hope for the future.
The natural state of a human being is dignity.
It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
After all, a bank without assets is hardly a bank at all.
Only those who have the courage to fail greatly achieve greatly.
GDP does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play.
Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer.
It is an unfinished society that we offer the world-a society that is forever committed to change, to improvement and to growth, that will never stagnate in the certitude of ideology or the finalities of dogma.
I now know how Tojo felt when he was planning Pearl Harbor.
It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
Since the days of Greece and Rome the word ‘citizen’ was a title of honor. We have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.
Courage is the virtue that President Kennedy most admired. He sought out those people who had demonstrated in some way, whether it was on a battlefield or a baseball diamond, in a speech or fighting for a cause, that they had courage that they would stand up, that they could be counted on.
Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.
The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion or of dissent which he so stridently demands for himself. He cannot trust democracy.
Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very, very helpful in our society if used properly.
I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world.
A life without criticism is not worth living.