One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense ... human rights invented America.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

You have given me a great responsibility to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

I personally think that he did violate the law, that he committed impeachable offenses. But I don't think that he thinks he did.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.