Never make a speech at a country dance or a football game.
I cannot say and no man could say that no more will be asked of us.
Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right. There is no duty which weighs more heavily on us than the duty we have to ensure that right.
One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends.
As we maintain the vigil of peace, we must remember that justice is a vigil, too-a vigil we must keep in our own streets and schools and among the lives of all our people-so that those who died here on their native soil shall not have died in vain.
Peace does not come just because we wish for it. Peace must be fought for. It must be built stone by stone.
The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction, the future of the American West now is both fabulous and factual.
If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
Throughout my entire public career I have followed the personal philosophy that I am a free man, an American, a public servant, and a member of my party, in that order always and only.
We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.
Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.
If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we’ll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we’ll have to fight in San Francisco.
Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
For the individual, education is the path to achievement and fulfillment; for the nation, it is a path to a society that is not only free but civilized; and for the world, it is the path to peace – for it is education that places reason over force.
If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith; freedom asks more than it gives; and the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.
The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation’s concerns now is not only for man’s enjoyment-but for man’s survival.
I won’t have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out.
To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.