I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable

God has given each normal person a capacity to achieve some end. True, some are endowed with more talent than others, but God has left none of us talentless.

The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform gave birth to unemployment insurance, old age pensions, government relief for the destitute, and, above all, new wage levels that meant not mere survival but a tolerable life.

We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.

The whole world must see that Israel must exist and has the right to exist, and is one of the great outposts of democracy in the world.

It's not how long a man lives, but how well he uses the time allotted him.