We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

Making peace is harder than making war.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.