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

Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution.

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

Men without hope, resigned to despair and oppression, do not make revolutions. It is when expectation replaces submission, when despair is touched with the awareness of possibility, that the forces of human desire and the passion for justice are unloosed.

All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.

The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.

The essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer, not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion, or a particular race, but to all its people.