None of us would trade freedom of expression for the narrowness of the public censor. America is a free market for people who have something to say, and need not fear to say it.

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

The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.

Before people will do anything, they have got to eat. And if you are really looking for a way for people to lean on you and to be dependent on you, in terms of their cooperation with you, it seems to me that food dependence would be terrific.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

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.

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.