To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

The good old days were never that good, believe me. The good new days are today, and better days are coming tomorrow. Our greatest songs are still unsung.

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.

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

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

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

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.