Democracy is no easy form of government. Few nations have been able to sustain it. For it requires that we take the chances of freedom; that the liberating play of reason be brought to bear on events filled with passion; that dissent be allowed to make its appeal for acceptance; that men chance error in their search for the truth.

Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

After all, a bank without assets is hardly a bank at all.

The Gross National Product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile.

I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind.

Men without hope, resigned to despair and oppression, do not make revolutions. It is when expectation replaces submission, when despair is touched with the awareness of possibility, that the forces of human desire and the passion for justice are unloosed.