The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

It will be controlled when the people of America, through their elected representatives, demand the right to air that they and their children can breathe without fear..

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

A President Roosevelt comes only once in a century. I believe God knew and does know of the need of the world at this moment. I don't believe President Roosevelt is an accident in time, or that it is an accident that he is President for a third time. I believe that Franklin D. Roosevelt truly is the voice of liberty in the world.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of disuse of the law.

I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.