Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.
To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.
Never answer a question from a farmer.
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.
National isolation breeds national neurosis.
Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.
The President is the people's lobbyist.
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
Never give in and never give up.
Never give up on anybody.
We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.
There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.
It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.
This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
