You can FOOL all the PEOPLE some of the TIME, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Let US never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ULTIMATE rulers of our DEMOCRACY are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this COUNTRY.

I THINK we CONSIDER too much the good luck of the early BIRD and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

In the END, we will remember not the WORDS of our enemies, but the SILENCE of our friends.

I am PREPARED to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the GREAT ordeal of meeting me is ANOTHER matter.

I PUT my heart and my SOUL into my WORK, and have LOST my MIND in the process.

I have a DREAM that my four LITTLE CHILDREN will one DAY live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

The BEST ARGUMENT against DEMOCRACY is a five-minute CONVERSATION with the AVERAGE voter.

There are risks and COSTS to ACTION. But they are FAR less than the long range risks of COMFORTABLE inaction.

We, the People, RECOGNIZE that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are BOUND together; that a FREEDOM which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who DIED in their defense.

If you COULD kick the person in the PANTS responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't SIT for a MONTH.