“Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.”

The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.

What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.

Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.

I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.

The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.

We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.

Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

A life without criticism is not worth living.

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.

There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.

Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.

The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.

All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.

If we look at Abdel Nasser in Egypt as an Arab leader, he was secular.

If your pride leads you to boast, you will be doubly guilty, because your intelligence will have shown that it is incapable of controlling your pride.

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Life is like a dogsled race. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

Everything now will prepare you for the next step. Don’t run from adversity; lean into it with all your heart and God will make you a leader worth following.

If you are not the lead dog, your scenery never changes.

The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader – the CEO.

I feel very strongly that we need to change the way we do trade because it has been one of the major factors that lead to decline of middle class incomes.