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

Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?

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

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

[I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation. There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.

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