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.

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

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

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.

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

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.