As we maintain the vigil of peace, we must remember that justice is a vigil, too - a vigil we must keep in our own streets and schools and among the lives of all our people - so that those who died here on their native soil shall not have died in vain.

Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.

We must open the doors of opportunity. We must equip our people to walk through those doors.

Liberty is not enough.

Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

I wake up 5 a.m. some mornings and hear the planes coming in at National Airport and I think they are bombing me.

All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.