A colony, yet a nation - words never before in the history of the world associated together.
The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good
The United Nations represents not a final stage in the development of world order, but only a primitive stage. Therefore its primary task is to create the conditions which will make possible a more highly developed organization.
I'm making progress if today's problems are different from yesterday's.
I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy not approved by the Jews.
Freedom & Duty always go hand in hand and if the free do not accept the duty of social responsibility, they will not long remain free.
Economic and military power can be developed under the spur of laws and appropriations. But moral power does not derive from any act of Congress. It depends on the relations of a people to their God. It is the churches to which we must look to develop the resources for the great moral offensive that is required to make human rights secure, and to win a just and lasting peace.
In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
Be proactive. Ask yourself, "Are my actions based on self-chosen values or on my moods, feelings and circumstances?"
I. . . started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.
I'll never forget where I'm from. It's essential to remain humble and evolving.