A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

We shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad.

World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor-it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.

Liberty without learning is always in peril, and learning without liberty is always in vain.

Our nation is founded on the principle that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.

Our democracy must demonstrate that it is still prepared to contend patiently, as well as with insight and passion, for the cause of human freedom in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.

The Family of Man is more than three billion strong. It lives in more than one hundred nations. Most of its members are not white. Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free enterprise, or due process of law or the Australian ballot.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie-deliberate, contrived and dishonest- but the myth-persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.