This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

Every President wants to do right.

You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

A man without a vote is a man without protection.

[T]he vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

The people of the United States are more prosperous…because their government embarked later than other governments…upon the policy of obstructing business

Inflation made it possible to divert the fury of the people to 'speculators' and 'profiteers'. Thus it proved itself an excellent psychological resource of the destructive and annihilist war policy.

The attempt to restrain prices within limits has to be given up. A government that sets out to abolish market prices is inevitably driven towards the abolition of private property.

The agents of etatism have certainly not been lacking in zeal and energy. But, for all this, economic affairs cannot be kept going by magistrates and policemen.

Anticapitalism can maintain itself in existence only by sponging on capitalism.

The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble.

A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society.

Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments.

To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no other way, in the present state of Science, than to subject the microbe (the new and happy term introduced by M. Sédillot) to the method of cultivation out of the body.

"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness."