“We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.”

“Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.”

“It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.”

“If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.”