The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

The best speakers know enough to be scared…the only difference between the pros and the novices is that the pros have trained the butterflies to fly in formation.

Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.

The politician is trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

Your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does not confer upon you greater wisdom than when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other.