To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

I class myself as a manual laborer.

History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.

A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward.

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.