To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.
We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.
We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.
Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.
To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.
This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.
There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.
The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
The President is the people's lobbyist.
The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.
Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.
There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.