If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining

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

I cannot say and no man could say that no more will be asked of us.

It is happily and kindly provided that in every life there are certain pauses, and interruptions, which force consideration upon the careless, and seriousness upon the light, points of time where one course of action ends and another begins.

Four. That's what I want you to remember. If you don't get your idea across in the first four minutes, you won't do it. Four sentences to a paragraph. Four letters to a word. The most important words in the English language all have four letters. Home. Love. Food. Land. Peace. . .I know peace has five letters, but any damn fool knows it should have four.