Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
He who slings mud generally loses ground.
There is a spiritual hunger in the world today – and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.
Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
I don’t want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
In America, anybody can be president. That’s one of the risks you take.
Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don’t forget when you leave why you came.
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it’s vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it’s security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men’s souls.
On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
A hungry man is not a free man.
As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.