The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.