“The cost of freedom is always high.”

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

Only an educated and informed people will be a free people.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

We have the ability, as members of the human race, we have the means, we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth in our lifetime. We only need the will.

There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.

Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.

Liberty without learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Our task is not to fix blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the nation’s greatness.

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.

Force when aggressively applied is “violence” and is, therefore, morally unjustifiable, but when it is used in the furtherance of a legitimate cause, it has its moral justification. The elimination of force at all costs in Utopian.

I know that the absence of my father in my life had its cost.

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.

I don’t feel comfortable without certain things. I always want some money in my pocket to do whatever I want. Even if it’s something like I want to eat food that costs more than what I got.

Falling for superficial costs depth its entire existence.

Technology has given us this wonderful opportunity to have low energy costs. We have to seize that, rather than keep debating and discussing and fighting over it.

Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.