The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason a

What people want from Mr Blair is not more polished rhetoric about the future but practical solutions to the problems of the present.

Each time a man stands for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.

The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.