In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.

In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.

Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.

Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each generation makes its own accounting to its children.

Desegregation of schools does not automatically transform them into better schools. It is only a step. The larger goal is to see that the education of our youth is not merely desegregated, but that it is excellent.

Automation provides us with wondrous increases of production and information, but does it tell us what to do with the men the machines displace? Modern industry gives us the capacity for unparalleled wealth - but where is our capacity to make that wealth meaningful to the poor of every nation?