Our way of living together in America is a strong but delicate fabric. It is made up of many threads. It has been woven over many centuries by the patience and sacrifice of countless liberty-loving men and women. It serves as a cloak for the protection of poor and rich, of black and white, of Jew and Gentile, of foreign and native born. Let us not tear it asunder. For no man knows, once it is destroyed, where or when man will find its protective warmth again.

I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.

I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.

There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.

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

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

No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights of every citizen.