A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the end, there must remain the question: What kind of life is one society providing to the people that live in it?

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

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.

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.