This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Censorship, in my opinion, is a stupid and shallow way of approaching the solution to any problem.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

I think of going back to the sports field again, and let's take a baseball game. Well, you have cracked out a grounder and you put in your last ounce of energy and you just happen to make first base. But you don't stop there. First base is the beginning. Now you call on all your alertness, your skill, your energy - and you count on your teammates, you count on the people that are working with you. And the purpose of that getting on first base was to get you around to count a run.

The proudest thing I can claim is that I am from Abilene.

It is only common sense to recognize that the great bulk of Americans, whether Republican or Democrat, face many common problems and agree on a number of basic objectives.

The stop-watch of history is running. The race is on . . .