Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Now we may have more preachers out there than we have drinkers. But a fellow told me a story one time about a man down in Kentuckywhere they make bourbon. And he said you can take a jigger or two jiggers and get by all right. But if you try to take the whole bottle why you have lost what you started with. So don't try to take it too quick. And don't try to do all of it at once. I don't do much promising. I tell what my goals are and then I try to wrap it up and put a blue ribbon on it and get it delivered. We say put the coonskin on the wall.

Peace does not come just because we wish for it. Peace must be fought for. It must be built stone by stone.

I know - from personal experience - that abiding values and abundant visions are learned in the homes of our people.

At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.