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.

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by how one thinks and acts.

Character isn't inherited.

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

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

There is no danger is letting people have their say. ... There is a danger when you try to stop them from saying it.

Democracy cannot long survive when the people permit their lives to be dominated - economically or politically - by a powerful few.