Insofar as it represents a genuine reconciliation of differences, a consensus is a fine thing; insofar as it represents a concealment of differences, it is a miscarriage of democratic procedure.

Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations

We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

The Program further aims to make the benefits of American culture and technology available to the world and to enrich American life by exposing it to the science and art of many societies.

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.

"The making of peace is a continuing process that must go on from day to day, from year to year, so long as our civilization shall last."

Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.

We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

Stand up for yourself.Never give any one permission to abuse you.

It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

Behind this judicial wall of separation there is a tyranny of lies that will fall... I say to you, my friends, let it fall!

A great sorrow, like a mariner's quadrant, brings the sun at noon down to the horizon, and we learn where we are on the sea of life.

But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.

When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters.

We cannot tell some people what it is believe, partly because they are too stupid to understand, partly because we are too proudly vague to explain.

I have liberal friends. They are misguided, they are wrong. I disagree with them. I don't want them to vote. I want them to go on vacation in November.

A man is nothing but breath and shadow.