When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?

No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.

Great lives never go out; they go on.

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.

If we did not have the impulse and ability to believe in the impossible, we would not have religion, democracy, or marriage.

Possibly the defining development of postmodern politics - naturally, an American one - is the separation of personality from ideology. If you are likeable, or at least not disagreeable, if you can strike a personal bond with the electorate, if you reassure rather than disrupt, it doesn't really matter what you stand for.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.