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

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

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man - not a color.