A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.

Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free.

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.

A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.

The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.