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.

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

Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic

Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.

When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies...

Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.