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.

It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

My views on birth control are somewhat distorted by the fact that I was seventh of nine children.

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

Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer.

Only those who have the courage to fail greatly achieve greatly.