We develop the kind of citizens we deserve.

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

Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.

I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world.

It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

The [next] priority for change the first element of a new politics for the United States is in our policy toward the world. Too much and for too long, we have acted as if our great military might and wealth could bring about an American solution to every world problem.