The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

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

Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.

Never give in and never give up.

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.