It is not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left.
I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.
Liberalism, above all, means emancipation – emancipation from one’s fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
My philosophy has always been that benefits should percolate up rather than trickle down.
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, in terms of their cooperation with you, it seems to me that food dependence would be terrific.
I believe that each of us can make a difference. That what is wrong can be made right. That people possess the basic wisdom and goodness to govern themselves without conflict.
Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect.
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
Our opposition will never understand the Democratic Party. Our Party is–to the unpracticed eyes of the old Republican Tories–a mysterious contraption that usually seems to be moving in a thousand directions. What they don’t know is what hurts them. For all that movement in the Democratic Party is caused by the internal combustion of creative ferment, of ideas, of people vigorously committed to the proposition that change and social progress are not only to be desired; they are necessities of twentieth-century America.
The road to freedom, here and everywhere, begins in the classroom.
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