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

My views on birth control are somewhat distorted by the fact that I was seventh of nine children.

The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present

The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change the world which yields most painfully to change.

Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.