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

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

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

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.

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.

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.

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