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

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.

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

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

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.

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.