It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

If you are dissatisfied with they way things are, then you have got to resolve to change them.

The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.

We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.

Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.

But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.