It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve ….

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 w….

If communist unions ever gain a position to exercise influence in the transport lanes of the world, the free world will have suffered a staggering bl….

I love this city. If I'm elected, I will move the White House to San Francisco. I went to Fisherman's Wharf and they even let me into Allioto`s. It m….

I am not one of those who think that coming in second or third is winning..

The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society..

There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the secu….

All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challe….

When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he purs….

Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things..

The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better..

Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope..

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves..

I now know how Tojo felt when he was planning Pearl Harbor..

Even government by the consent of the governed, as in our own Constitution, must be limited in its power to act against its people; so that there may….

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventu….

The essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer, not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a parti….

I think we can end the divisions within the United States. What I think is quite clear is that we can work together in the last analysis. And that wh….

Democracy is no easy form of government. Few nations have been able to sustain it. For it requires that we take the chances of freedom; that the libe….

I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and I have such strong feelings about what must be done..

If our constitution had followed the style of Saint Paul, the First Amendment might have concluded: "But the greatest of these is speech." In the dar….