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.

All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead?

O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small.

The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.

The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose-and is a test of the quality of a nations' civilization.

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.