Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

The Wright brothers' first flight was not reported in a single newspaper because every rookie reporter knew what could and couldn't be done.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men ... We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right....Dead, but right.

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.