If today there is a proper American "sphere of influence" it is this fragile sphere called earth upon which all men live and share a common fate--a sphere where our influence must be for peace and justice.

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

The road to freedom, here and everywhere, begins in the classroom.

I do not feel that we should allow a shortage of funds to prevent cities from financing needed projects.

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

The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.

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