Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.

I suppose if you could have only one thing, it would be that-energy. Without it, you haven't got a thing.

I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end... where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events.

I can't see that it's wrong to give him a little legal experience before he goes out to practice law.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.