Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.
I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.
One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
There are as many opinions as there are experts.
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.
Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
