The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

I think that I shall never see<br>A poem lovely as a tree.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

...probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.