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 execution, the labors of many.

There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

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

Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect.

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the end, there must remain the question: What kind of life is one society providing to the people that live in it?

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

The President is the people's lobbyist.

The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life -- the children; those who are in the twilight of life -- the elderly; and those who are in the shadow of life -- the sick, the needy, and the handicapped.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

In the minds and hearts of the American people, there is a great hunger for peace based on a universal recognition of the values of freedom and human dignity.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.

The biggest mistake in my political life was not to learn how to use television.

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

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.

Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.

As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space ~ it will seem increasingly absurd that we have not better organized the life of the human family.