History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.

Like many things in our national life, we miscalculated. We overestimated our ability to control events, which is one of the great dangers of a great power. Power tends to be a substitute for judgment and wisdom.

If the Senator can find in Title VII any language which provides that an employer will have to hire on the basis of percentage or quota related to color, race, religion, or national origin, I will start eating the pages one after another, because it is not in there.

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

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

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.