"The best way to keep a man from doing something is to tell him he can't do it."

"I am confident that the American people will not be stampeded by the small minority who are trying to make us believe that democracy is a failure."

"The ultimate test of our democracy is not the ability to resist attack, but the ability to create conditions so that attack will not occur."

"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."

"We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all our citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to …"