I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers.

I was greatly influenced by one of my teachers. She had a zeal not so much for perfection as for steady betterment-she demanded not excellence so much as integrity.

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

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

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.

Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.