If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.

We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare.

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

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

I believe that each of us can make a difference. That what is wrong can be made right. That people possess the basic wisdom and goodness to govern themselves without conflict.

National isolation breeds national neurosis.