My belief has always been... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal government-at point of bayonet if necessary-to restore that individual's constitutional rights

Tyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently 'on little cat feet.'

The glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past. For example, the long struggle of minority citizens for equal rights, once a source of disunity and civil war, is now a point of pride for all Americans. We must never go back. There is no room for racism, anti-Semitism, or other forms of ethnic and racial hatred in this country.

The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.

Sixty percent of our immigrants are admitted merely because they have relatives here. Many of these people are not immediate relative, but are part of extended families. The nepotistic U.S. policy lets in relatives then lets in the relatives' relatives, and so on, creating an endless and ever growing chain of new immigrants.