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.
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.
We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.
I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
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.
If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.
Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
