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

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

Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, 'His color is not mine,' or 'His beliefs are strange and different,' in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.

It now seems to be quite a thing to pull down the mighty from their seats and roll them in the mire. This practice deserves pronounced condemnation. Hero worship is a tremendous force in uplifting and strengthening. Humanity, let us have our heroes. Let us continue to believe that some have been truly great.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.