Justice delayed is democracy denied.

The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today.

American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.

In a world of danger and trial, peace is our deepest aspiration, and when peace comes we will gladly convert not our swords into plowshares, but our bombs into peaceful reactors, and our planes into space vessels. "Pursue peace," the Bible tells us, and we shall pursue it with every effort and every energy that we possess. But it is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

We celebrate the past to awaken the future.