For I can assure you that we love our country, not for what it was, though it has always been great - not for what it is, though of this we are deeply proud - but for what it someday can, and, through the efforts of us all, someday will be.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society. ... There is little value in ensuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it.

The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America.

No country can possibly move ahead, no free society can possibly be sustained, unless it has an educated citizenry whose qualities of mind and heart permit it to take part in the complicated and increasingly sophisticated decisions that pour not only upon the President and upon the Congress, but upon all the citizens who exercise the ultimate power.

Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.

When power corrupts, poetry cleanses

In America there must be only citizens, not divided by grade, first and second, but citizens, east, west, north, and south.