We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

You can't repeal human nature by an Act of Congress.

There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.

A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future. What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made? In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world's greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom.

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.