We live by hope. We do not ever get all we want when we want it. But we have to believe that someday, somehow, some way, it will be better and that we can make it so.

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

There can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights.

We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it.

The road to freedom, here and everywhere, begins in the classroom.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.