On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

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.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

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 think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.