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

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

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

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

She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

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.