Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world.

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

Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.

All great questions must be raised by great voices, and the greatest voice is the voice of the people - speaking out - in prose, or painting or poetry or music; speaking out - in homes and halls, streets and farms, courts and cafes - let that voice speak and the stillness you hear will be the gratitude of mankind.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

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