I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child.

What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?

Because of the realities of human nature, perfect peace is achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the typewriter.

But more than anything else, we have learned that legal assistance for the poor, when properly provided, is one of the most constructive ways to help them help themselves.

I never leave a game before the last pitch, because in baseball, as in life and especially politics, you never know what will happen.

Violence or the threat of violence [must] never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.