The best and noblest gifts of humanity cannot be the monopoly of a particular race or country; its scope may not be limited nor may it be regarded as the miser's hoard buried underground.

I'm not an expert on the arms race.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I didn't read.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.  

Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.

If you are part of a false propaganda machinery, you are fighting for the wrong cause.

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.