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

We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.

What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.

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

If you never quit, youll never fail.

It is not more bigness that should be our goal. We must attempt, rather, to bring people back to...the warmth of community, to the worth of individual effort and responsibility...and of individuals working together as a community, to better their lives and their children's future.

We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.