To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.

We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.

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

I am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works.

We Americans know - although others appear to forget - the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.

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.