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

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

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.

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

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

And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say, be solved if we have the will, the courage, the boldness to face them, face them square.

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