Every gift contains a danger. Whatever gift we have we are compelled to express. And if the expression of that gift is blocked, distorted, or merely allowed to languish, then the gift turns against us, and we suffer.
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources – because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.
Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t fart and chew gum at the same time.
Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.
A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he’s going to get sick on it.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
We must open the doors of opportunity.
You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
A man without a vote is man without protection.
There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.