I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… The one absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

Our task must be to free ourselves…by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.

The overwhelming importance of the atmosphere means that there are no longer any frontiers to defend against pollution, attack, or propaganda. It means, further, that only by a deep patriotic devotion to one’s country can there be a hope of the kind of protection of the whole planet, which is necessary for the survival of the people of other countries.

Wherever there is injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.

I had always hoped that this land might become a safe & agreeable Asylum to the virtuous & persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.

To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies—it is the first law of nature.