"Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious f…"

"The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means."

"The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use — of how t…"

"What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant.…"

"In the words of the old saying, every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that eve…"

"I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he'd been through, never worried about it.... I thought it would …"

"The Irish were not wanted there [when his grandfather came to Boston]. Now an Irish Catholic is president of the Unit…"

"To say that the future will be different from the present is, to scientists, hopelessly self-evident. I observe regre…"

"One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time."

"Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journe…"