Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.

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

I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.

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.

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

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.