Some men see what is, and ask 'Why?' I see what might be, and ask 'Why Not?'

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

We develop the kind of citizens we deserve.

Men without hope, resigned to despair and oppression, do not make revolutions. It is when expectation replaces submission, when despair is touched with the awareness of possibility, that the forces of human desire and the passion for justice are unloosed.

Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle.

If communist unions ever gain a position to exercise influence in the transport lanes of the world, the free world will have suffered a staggering blow.

Now I can go back to being ruthless again.