Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops. 

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practice perfection, we revise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

Complacence among the masses may lead to subjugation bythe leaders.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

Man is a universe within himself.

Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.