It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership--men with fortitude, honesty, and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the history of the world.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

This [minimum wage] legislation, passed by the 81st Congress at its first session, is an important addition to the laws we live by. It is a measure dictated by social justice. It adds to our economic strength. It is founded on the belief that full human dignity requires at least a minimum level of economic sufficiency and security.

A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.

Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.

Any story worth telling is worth exaggerating.