Life involves effort and growth. You won't grow by watching a situation comedy, though you can grow by reading a book. I hope we aren't becoming a nation of watchers, because what made us great is that we've always been a nation of doers.

There was a time when "sound as a dollar" was a description, not a joke.

Abraham Lincoln freed the black man. In many ways, Dr. King freed the white man. How did he accomplish this tremendous feat? Where others - white and black - preached hatred, he taught the principles of love and nonviolence.

Our moral imperative is to work with all our powers for that day when the children of the world grow up without the fear of nuclear war.

The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people's democracy. It's the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.

Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen.

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.