If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.

The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion

All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we are patriotic in the real sense of the word. ... Outward behavior, while important, is not the real measure of a man's patriotism.

Life is meant to be lived.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.