“The very essence of leadership is [ that] you have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.”
“All people should strive to learn before they die: what they are running from, and to, and why.”
“Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society.”
“Anger closes the mind and cools the heart when both are need most”
“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”
“Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.”
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul, then the way it treats its children.”
“If certain acts of violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the US does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us.”
“If you put fences around people, you get sheep.”
“I am not pro-this people or that. I am pro-justice, pro-freedom. I am anti-injustice, anti-oppression.”
