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

Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.

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

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

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.

Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.