To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required, not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever.

Slow help is no help.

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.

A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.