You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends.

We Americans know - although others appear to forget - the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.

In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.

If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.

If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories; for pity presupposes sympathy, and a little attention will show them, that those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out.