The gap between the rich and the poor is the most dangerous threat to world peace we have.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

If I believe in something, I will fight for it, with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing.

We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it.

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

It is better to gain a foot than to stand still, even when you seek to gain a mile.

My friends, to those who say that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are 172 years late. To those who say that this civil-rights program is an infringement on states’ rights, I say this: The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states' rights and to walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights.