If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.
The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
Our attitude towards immigration reflects our faith in the American ideal. We have always believed it possible for men and women who start at the bottom to rise as far as the talent and energy allow. Neither race nor place of birth should affect their chances.
We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels-local, State and Federal-in ending the pollution of our waters.
Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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.