Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.

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.

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

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.