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

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.

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.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.

While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.

It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.