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.

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

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

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.