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

Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.

I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.

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

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.

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