We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

'If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he'll be on your porch and the next day he'll rape your wife in your own bed.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

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.

Voting is the first duty of democracy.