I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

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

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

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

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.

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

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.