“The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.”
“Never answer a question from a farmer.”
“The President is the people's lobbyist.”
“National isolation breeds national neurosis.”
“Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.”
“Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.”
“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.”
“Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.”
“Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.”
“Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.”
“American public opinion is like an ocean -- it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.”
“To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.”
“There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.”
“The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.”
“I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.”
“There are those who say to you -- we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.”
“Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.”
“Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts -- it's what you do with what you have left.”
“We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.”
“The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.”
“Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.”
“Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.”
“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.”
“A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.”
“The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy -- when properly aged.”
“Liberalism, above all, means emancipation -- emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination... from poverty.”
“It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.”
“I think the worst thing this nation could do for humanity would be to leave any uncertainty as to our will, our purpose and our capacity to carry out our purpose.”
“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.”
“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.”