It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.

The road toward equality of freedom is not easy, and great cost and danger march alongside us. We are committed to peaceful and nonviolent change, and that is important for all to understand - though all change is unsettling. Still, even in the turbulence of protest and struggle is greater hope for the future, as men learn to claim and achieve for themselves the rights formerly petitioned from others.

I love this city. If I am elected, I'll move the White House to San Francisco. Everybody's so friendly.

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

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

Democracy is no easy form of government. Few nations have been able to sustain it. For it requires that we take the chances of freedom; that the liberating play of reason be brought to bear on events filled with passion; that dissent be allowed to make its appeal for acceptance; that men chance error in their search for the truth.

Your life can be anything you want it to be.