How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself.

I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.

We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all-regardless of station, race, or creed.

The Social Security Act offers to all our citizens a workable and working method of meeting urgent present needs and of forestalling future need.

What America needs now is a drink.