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

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.

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

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

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.

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 human race has improved everything, but the human race.