There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

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

Like many things in our national life, we miscalculated. We overestimated our ability to control events, which is one of the great dangers of a great power. Power tends to be a substitute for judgment and wisdom.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.

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

Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.