That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.