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

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

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.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

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

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.