You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.

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

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet...

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

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.

Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.