This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do it. We can banish hunger from the face of the earth.

It is better to gain a foot than to stand still, even when you seek to gain a mile.

What you do, what each of us does, has an effect on the country, the state, the nation, and the world.

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.

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Our opposition will never understand the Democratic Party. Our Party is--to the unpracticed eyes of the old Republican Tories--a mysterious contraption that usually seems to be moving in a thousand directions. What they don't know is what hurts them. For all that movement in the Democratic Party is caused by the internal combustion of creative ferment, of ideas, of people vigorously committed to the proposition that change and social progress are not only to be desired; they are necessities of twentieth-century America.