The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

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

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.

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.

If I believe in something, I will fight for it, with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing.