There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

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

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

You can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do?

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.

When we say, 'One nation under God, with liberty and justice for all', we are talking about all people. We either ought to believe it or quit saying it .

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.