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

Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.

The road toward equality of freedom is not easy, and great cost and danger march alongside us. We are committed to peaceful and nonviolent change, and that is important for all to understand - though all change is unsettling. Still, even in the turbulence of protest and struggle is greater hope for the future, as men learn to claim and achieve for themselves the rights formerly petitioned from others.

Each generation makes it's own accounting to its children.

The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.

I am not one of those who think that coming in second or third is winning.

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