The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.