"It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps."

"I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream."

"One day we will have to stand before the God of history and we will be asked what did we do with these moments of great moral challenge."

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

"You know every Napoleon has his Waterloo. I'm like Napoleon. I'm at my Waterloo, and I'm on my knees."