For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew— or a Quaker or a Unitarian or a Baptist. It was Virginia's harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson's statute of religious freedom. Today I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you — until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped at a time of great national peril.

Privilege is here, and with privilege goes responsibility.

If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong.

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. Only the strong, only the industrious, only the determined, only the courageous, only the visionary who determine the real nature of our struggle can possibly survive.