Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people.

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.

Franklin's illness...gave him strength and courage he had not had before. He had to think out the fundamentals of living and learn the greatest of all lessons - infinite patience and never ending persistence.

If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.

Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.

Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers' money.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart