Quotes

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.

Laws are never as effective as habits.

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.

I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.

We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.