The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.

Our attitude towards immigration reflects our faith in the American ideal. We have always believed it possible for men and women who start at the bottom to rise as far as the talent and energy allow. Neither race nor place of birth should affect their chances.

Some men see what is, and ask 'Why?' I see what might be, and ask 'Why Not?'

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.

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.

We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.

Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.