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.

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

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

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.

A hungry man is not a free man.

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.