It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.

To a certain extent I don't see any real need for socialism in the United States immediately, but things change and it may be that there will come a need for partial changes in our economy.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?

We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.

The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.

If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.