Quotes

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

Nature is neutral.

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

Making peace is harder than making war.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

In quiet places, reason abounds.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.