I ask particularly that those of you who are now in school will prepare yourselves to bear the burden of leadership over the next 40 years here in the United States, and make sure that the United States - which I believe almost alone has maintained watch and ward for freedom - that the United States meet its responsibility. That is a wonderful challenge for us as a people.

Show me a man with a great golf game, and I’ll show you a man who has been neglecting something.

Not everyone has equal abilities, but everyone should have equal opportunity for education.

We are confronted primarily with a moral issue... whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities, whether we are going to treat our fellow Americans as we want to be treated.

By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments.

If we are to go only halfway or reduce our sights in the face of difficulty... it would be better to not go at all.

Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.