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

Virginia States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about states' rights today are not those seeking the protection of the individual citizen, but his exploitation. The time is long past — if indeed it ever existed — when we should permit the noble concept of states' rights to be betrayed.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy or too frightened, when we fail to speak up and speak out, we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice.

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.

GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile