Poverty is the great moral issue of our time.

This is your time, this is your dance;
live every moment, leave nothing to chance.

It is not because you are a powerful country that you have the right to eliminate other nations.

How much evil in the lives of men and nations can be produced by thirst for power, possession and pleasure!

Let us not be consumed with haste, as if time dedicated to Christ in silent prayer were time wasted.

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

In the mirror of the cross we saw all of the sufferings of humanity today. We saw the suffering of children who are abandoned and abused, the threats against the family, the divisions of the world, the arrogance of the rich who do not share with those who suffer hunger and thirst.