A revolution is coming -- a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough -- but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability.

I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports -- golf, tennis, football, baseball and the rest.

Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.

Communism counts its opportunities in terms of decades -- not of weeks. Its means of aggression consist not only of nuclear weapons and missiles with enormous boosters, and not only of spies, agents and terrorists, but of great masses of men and women, deluded by a common ideology which inspires them with a false hope.

Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very, very helpful in our society if used properly.

Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.

One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely because he preferred experiment to ideology.

Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.

Nothing is more false than the notion that the triumph of Communism is inevitable or that the Communists are steadily pushing the free world into a corner.

Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer. It is more important than competence or vision. It can never be an elective in any law school. It can never be de-limited, dated or outworn, and it should pervade the heart, the halls of justice and the chambers of the mind.

The Gross National Product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile.

I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system should always take into consideration the special knowledge as to the facts in a case which only the trial judge possesses.

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

Don't get mad, get even.

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.

What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Communism and Democracy.

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.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.