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

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

We must recognize the full human equality of all our people - before God, before the law, and in the councils of government. We must do this not because it is economically advantageous - although it is; not because the laws of God and man command it - although they do command it; not because people in other lands wish it so. We must do it for the single and fundamental reason that it is the right thing to do.

I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.

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.

Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.