“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.”

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.

Through knowledge and understanding, we will drive from the temple of freedom all those who seek to establish over us thought control, whether they be agents of a foreign state or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.

In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.

So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.

Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.

Don’t be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.

The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Stay humble, act with integrity and inspire.

Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe – not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.

A mature person has the integrity to stand alone.

We have a chance to choose unity, hope, integrity and decency.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

Envy someone an’ it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?

There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.