The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of….

There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything..

We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom..

The way we treat our children in the dawn of their lives and the way we treat our elderly in the twilight of their lives is a measure of the quality ….

Our opposition will never understand the Democratic Party. Our Party is--to the unpracticed eyes of the old Republican Tories--a mysterious contrapti….

I do not feel that we should allow a shortage of funds to prevent cities from financing needed projects..

The road to freedom, here and everywhere, begins in the classroom..

People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They speak in languages we ….

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..

I am not here to judge whether people are locked in poverty because of themselves or because of the society in which they live. All I know is that th….

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in execut….

Before people will do anything, they have got to eat. And if you are really looking for a way for people to lean on you and to be dependent on you, i….

Much of our American progress has been the product of the individual who had an idea; pursued it; fashioned it; tenaciously clung to it against all o….

This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do it. We can banish….

And it is to these rights - the right of law and order, the right of life, the right of liberty, the right of a job, the right of a home in a decent ….

The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets..

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor..

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table..

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future..

My philosophy has always been that benefits should percolate up rather than trickle down..