A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation read more

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count read more

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it

We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the read more

No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were . . .

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy read more

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on read more

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to read more

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises read more

Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.