Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

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

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

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.

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.