Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.

Capital, and the question of who owns it and therefore reaps the benefit of its productiveness, is an extremely important issue that is complementary to the issue of full employment... I see these as twin pillars of our economy: Full employment of our labor resources and widespread ownership of our capital resources. Such twin pillars would go a long way in providing a firm underlying support for future economic growth that would be equitably shared.

In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts

We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.