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.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

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

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

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

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.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.