To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

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

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

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

There is...a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied...by better cars on longer credit terms.

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.