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.

In Massachusetts they [Democratic politicians] steal, in California they feud, and in New York they lie.

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

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

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

About one month before he was killed, when asked by David Frost how his obituary should read: Something about the fact that I made some contribution to either my country, or those who were less well off. I think back to what Camus wrote about the fact that perhaps this world is a world in which children suffer, but we can lessen the number of suffering children, and if you do not do this, then who will do this? I'd like to feel that I'd done something to lessen that suffering.

Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.