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People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics.

Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

The demographic complexity of this country should be reflected not only at the end of the chain, but since the beginning, in order that more of these people can be excited and integrated.

Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

As America has grown less economically equal, a citizen's ability to move upward has fallen behind that of citizens in other Western democracies. We are no longer the country where anyone can become anything.