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I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal – that you can gather votes like box tops – is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
Nature is neutral.
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.