When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

I shall never forget the faces of the boys and the girls in that little Welhausen Mexican School, and I remember even yet the pain of realizing and knowing then that college was closed to practically every one of those children because they were too poor. And I think it was then that I made up my mind that this nation could never rest while the door to knowledge remained closed to any American.

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.

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.

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.

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