QUOTES
A
free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
A hungry man is not a free man.
All
progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
Change
is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
Every
age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that
are to be.
I
believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until
it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true
faith or path by which it may spread.
It
will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look
his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.
Making
peace is harder than making war.
On
this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
Peace
is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
That
which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height
of wisdom in another.
The
human race has improved everything, but the human race.
The
whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small
- to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to,
Those
who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public
purse.
To
act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test
of a man-and also a nation.
We
can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led
to the present.
We
travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable
reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and
peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we
give our fragile craft.
It
is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
The
world is now too small for anything but "the truth" and too terrible for anything
but "brotherhood."
Understanding
human needs is half the job of meeting them.
Our
strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our
ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to
breathe free.
I
have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate
is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky
can be seen. Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose
political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.
