“Too many of us still believe our differences define us.”

“We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.”

“There's nothing wrong with a little agitation for what's right or what's fair.”

“Sensible people have got to work together.”

“We must be headlights and not taillights.”

“The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.”

“No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanly directed in the first instance.”

“We forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than in running before the crowd; we forget that in the resistance of the minority some of the biggest things in our own history have been accomplished, and the man who looks on the Stars and Stripes and doesn't hold a right to say nay to his neighbor, even if the neighbor is of the larger party, has forgotten the history of his country.”