The plight of the cities--their physical decay and human despair that pervades them--is the great internal problem of the American nation, a challenge which must be met. (Buffalo NY, 1-20-67)

The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present.

The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.

The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of b…

The plight of the cities--their physical decay and human despair that pervades them--is the great internal problem of the American nation, a challenge which mu…

All communities are apt to look to government for too much. Even in our own country, where its powers and duties are so strictly limited, we are prone to do so…

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.