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.

Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.

I hear the headlines on the radio, see them on TV and read them in the paper. When I hear from the men out there, I sometimes don't believe they are talking about the same situation.

I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.

We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.

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.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.