In this entire century the Democratic Party has never been invested with power on the basis of a program which promised to keep things as they were. We have won when we pledged to meet the new challenges of each succeeding year. We have triumphed not in spite of controversy, but because of it; not because we avoided problems, but because we faced them. We have won, not because we bent and diluted our principles, but because we stood fast to the ideals which represent the most noble and generous portion of the American spirit.

'If men do not build,' asks the poet, 'how shall they live?' (12-10-1966)

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of ot…

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large cit…

'I know it's difficult to forget the past but I urge everyone here today to try and move the country forward.'

I began my editorial career with the presidency of Mr. Adams, and my principal object was to render his administration all the assistance in my power. I flatte…

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.