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

What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.

Some men see what is, and ask 'Why?' I see what might be, and ask 'Why Not?'

Don't get mad, get even.

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

Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.