“If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.”

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

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.

The only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously.

Sincerity is always subject to proof.

Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.

Here on earth, God’s work must surely be our own.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.