The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind, that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity, and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.

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.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

The pay is good and I can walk to work.

In a world of danger and trial, peace is our deepest aspiration.