“The best road to progress is freedom’s road.”

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.

No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Not everyone has equal abilities, but everyone should have equal opportunity for education.

Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to expand the opportunities of our people.

The cost of freedom is always high.

A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.

Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort.

The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.

The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master.

Ask not that the journey be easy; ask instead that it be worth it.

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

So long as freedom from hunger is only half achieved, so long as two thirds of the nations have food deficits, no citizen, no nation can afford to be satisfied.

Through discipline comes freedom.

My main fight is for freedom and equality.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.