"When I face an issue of great import that cleaves both constituents and colleagues, I always take the same approach. I engage in deep deliberation and quiet contemplation. I wait to the last available minute and then I always vote with the losers. Because, my friend, the winners never remember and the losers never forget."

"When the Israelis pick up guns, or the Poles, or the Irish, or any white man in the world says “give me lib…"

"We must on principle free ourselves from any class standpoint."

"Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features. They share these features also with o…"

"I think we are bound as free men—and we townsmen are especially bound, for we only have the power to take t…"

"In conclusion, let me emphasize one point: that we are determined, as a nation in 1961 that freedom shall s…"

"The most powerful force in the world is not a weapon or a nation but a truth: that we are spiritual beings,…"