Your life can be anything you want it to be.
If you never quit, you’ll never fail.
Prejudice exists and probably will continue to ‘but we have tried to make progress and we are making progress. We are not going to accept the status quo.’
It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.
I love this city. If I am elected, I’ll move the White House to San Francisco. Everybody’s so friendly.
Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic.
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.
I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind.
Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer. It is more important than competence or vision. It can never be an elective in any law school. It can never be de-limited, dated or outworn, and it should pervade the heart, the halls of justice and the chambers of the mind.
Each generation makes it’s own accounting to its children.
I am not one of those who think that coming in second or third is winning.
The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present.
Sometimes people think that because you have money and position you are immune from the human experience. But I can feel as lonesome and lost as the next man when I turn the key in the door and go into an empty house that is usually full of kids and dogs.
The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
I thought they’d get one of us, but Jack, after all he’s been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.
One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.
We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.
We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.