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

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.

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.

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.

Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.

Only those who have the courage to fail greatly achieve greatly.

We develop the kind of citizens we deserve.