Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism..

Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble..

Like many things in our national life, we miscalculated. We overestimated our ability to control events, which is one of the great dangers of a great….

We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare..

If I believe in something, I will fight for it, with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing..

In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts.

Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves..

We live by hope. We do not ever get all we want when we want it. But we have to believe that someday, somehow, some way, it will be better and that w….

There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late..

My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, baloney, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and mayonnaise on toasted bread with catsup on the side..

The history of the labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land. America is a living testimonial to what free men and women, organi….

We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it..

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost..

Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part….

The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remot….

The President is the peoples lobbyist..

Never give in and never give up..

You can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do?.

Never answer a question from a farmer..

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 id….

Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat..