America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.

Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

What you really have to know is one: yourself. And the only way you can know that one is in the mirror of the others. And the only way you can see into the mirror of the others is by love or its opposite—by profound emotion. Certainly not by curiosity—by dancing around asking, looking, making notes. You have to live relationships to know.

The American journey has not ended. America is always still to build ... West is a country in the mind, and so eternal.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.