There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.

Equality means equality for all - no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.

The way we treat our children in the dawn of their lives and the way we treat our elderly in the twilight of their lives is a measure of the quality of a nation.

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

You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity to be a teacher, a mayor, a senator, and a vice president, that America is not a nation of promise.

There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.

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