Long ago, there was a noble word, liberal, which derives from the word free. Now a strange thing happened to that word. A man named Hitler made it a term of abuse, a matter of suspicion, because those who were not with him were against him, and liberals had no use for Hitler. And then another man named McCarthy cast the same opprobrium on the word. ... We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.

The purpose of life afterall is to live it.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government.

The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. But if you have more projects than you have time for, you are not going to be an unhappy person. This is as much a question of having imagination and curiosity as it is of actually making plans.

No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

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