If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.

The Federal Government has a responsibility to manage wisely those public lands and forests under its jurisdiction necessary in the interest of the public as a whole. ... In the utilization of these lands, the people are entitled to expect that their timber, minerals, streams and water supply, wildlife and recreational values should be safeguarded, improved and made available not only for this but for future generations.