Report on the Potsdam Conference (1945)
Context: We know now that the basic proposition of the worth and dignity of man is not a sentimental aspiration or a vain hope or a piece of rhetoric. It is the strongest, most creative force now present in this world.
Now let us use that force and all our resources and all our skills in the great cause of a just and lasting peace!
The Three Great Powers are now more closely than ever bound together in determination to achieve that kind of peace. From Teheran, and the Crimea, from San Francisco and Berlin — we shall continue to march together to a lasting peace and a happy world!
2000s, Speech at the Four Seasons, New York (25 September 2008)
“Love is the strongest force in the world.”
Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
A History of the Lyre
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
2000s, 2003, Invasion of Iraq (March 2003)
“We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.”
2015, Address to the People of India (January 2015)
Context: Because in big and diverse societies like ours, progress ultimately depends on something more basic, and that is how we see each other. And we know from experience what makes nations strong. And Neha I think did a great job of describing the essence of what’s important here. We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.
“O strong soul, by what shore
Tarriest thou now? For that force,
Surely, has not been left vain!”
St. 4
Rugby Chapel (1867)
“You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”
Dr. Stockmann, Act V
An Enemy of the People (1882)
Source: The New State, 1918, p. 3
Epistle to the Romans
