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.

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

He's got great vision. If he can get outside, he can take it all the way. That's what we were worried about.

An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and too often they have been turned into open sewers by communities and by industries. It makes us all very fearful that all rivers will go this way unless somebody acts now to try to balance our river development.

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.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.