The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, 'What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.'

An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits

And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation – the right to breathe air as nature provided it -- the right of future generations to a healthy existence?" (John F. Kennedy, June 10, 1963, American University speech)

And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put up a wall to keep our people in.

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