The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.

I wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death. I have always felt that whatever your beliefs might be, if you could earn enough to keep body and soul together and had to be pretty busy doing that, you would not be very apt to have time to plot the overthrow of any existing government.

Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.

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

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.

Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.