American liberty is a religion. It is a thing of the spirit.

The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.

Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress. Now more than ever we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.

Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.