Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.
We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.
Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.
The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.
Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.
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.
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.