It Is Not More Bigness That Should

About One Month Before He Was Killed, When Asked By David Frost How His Obituary Should Read: Something About The Fact That I Made Some Contribution To Either My Country, Or Those Who Were Less Well Off. I Think Back To What Camus Wrote About The Fact That Perhaps This World Is A World In Which Children Suffer, But We Can Lessen The Number Of Suffering Children, And If You Do Not Do This, Then Who Will Do This? I'd Like To Feel That I'd Done Something To Lessen That Suffering.

Even Government By The Consent Of The Governed, As In Our Own Constitution, Must Be Limited In Its Power To Act Against Its People; So That There May Be No Interference With The Right To Worship, Or With The Security Of The Home; No Arbitrary Imposition Of Pains Or Penalties By Officials High Or Low; No Restrictions On The Freedom Of Men To Seek Education Or Work Or Opportunity Of Any Kind, So That Each Man May Become All He Is Capable Of Becoming.

Every Dictatorship Has Ultimately Strangled In The Web Of Repression It Wove For Its People, Making Mistakes That Could Not Be Corrected Because Criticism Was Prohibited.

The Sharpest Criticism Often Goes Hand In Hand With The Deepest Idealism And Love Of Country.

You Knew That What Is Given Or Granted Can Be Taken Away, That What Is Begged Can Be Refused; But That What Is Earned Is Kept.