Never give in and never give up.

It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the end, there must remain the question: What kind of life is one society providing to the people that live in it?

The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.

In the minds and hearts of the American people, there is a great hunger for peace based on a universal recognition of the values of freedom and human dignity.

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.