The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within.

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back.

After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.

...When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself.

People do look to others for some leadership, and it's not bad for them to supply it when they feel that way.

I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An awful lot of people feel that they're treading water -- that if they vanished in smoke, it wouldn't mean anything at all in this world. And that's a despairing and destructive feeling. It'll kill you.