“He saw the marching, shouting crowd as the image of Europe and its history. Europe was the Grand March. The march from revolution to revolution, from struggle to struggle, ever onward.”

“A man lives his life only when he is marching, i thought, when he keeps marching onwards at any price. When he stops marching onwards, he decays. The joy of life is the joy of the experience that comes from feeling one's own strength.”

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."[Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress, 13 March 1962]”

“Every war is a murderous struggle between foes. And yet, no army has ever marched into battle believing that the Creator had sided with their enemy.”

“The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past. ”

“Marching onward, marching onwardMarching to that lovely tuneMarching onward, marching onwardHappy as a bird in JuneSliding onward, sliding onwardListen to that ragHop and skip now do that slow, ohDo that slow dragDance slowly, prance slowlyNow you hear that pretty ragDance slowly, prance slowlyNow you do the real slow dragWaltz slowly, waltz slowlyListen to the ragtimeHop and skipNow do the slow, oh, do the slow drag”