Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

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.

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.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

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.