Quotations

«It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.»

«Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.»

«Now I can go back to being ruthless again.»

«I'm tired of chasing people.»

«There is no substitute for athletics.»

«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.»

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

«Gross National Product measures neither the health of our children, the quality of their education, nor the joy of their play. It measures neither the beauty of our poetry, nor the strength of our marriages. It is indifferent to the decency of our factories and the safety of our streets alike. It measures neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our wit nor our courage, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything in short, except that which makes life worth living. It can tell us everything about our country, except those things that make us proud to be a part of it.»

«The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.»