Freedom is not won on the battlefields. The chance for freedom is won there. The final battle is won or lost in our hearts and minds.

You cannot barter security for freedom, or freedom for security.

The first step toward liberation of any group is to use the power in hand... And the power in hand is the vote.

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

If you tell me that there are obstacles in the way of your ambition that make it impossible to pursue, then I know it's not a real ambition. There are always obstacles. The 'perversity of events,' as someone once called it, is always ready to lick us. Events are never right for achieving what we most want to achieve. If this were not so, there would be no real fun in being 17 -- or even in being alive.

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place

You can't prove you're an American by waving Old Glory.