Equality means equality for all - no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.

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.

Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

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

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

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