What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.

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

The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights

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

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

I do not feel that we should allow a shortage of funds to prevent cities from financing needed projects.

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.