I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

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

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

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.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

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.