The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent.

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.

I’m not a bad person. I haven’t killed anyone. I (rarely) lie. I don’t kick little puppies. So why do people look at me as if the world would be a better place without me?

You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area.

If you want a Big Brother, you get all that comes with it.

Inexperience is what makes a young man do what an older man says is impossible.

The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It's not in the Bill of Rights.

The world needs change, change needs an activity. It has to be planted by a thought.

There is nothing at all in life, except what we put there.

Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework, and my sister stopped reading those self-esteem books because she met a new boy

High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.