Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.

Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger.

A number of people still think of the United States as being overwhelmingly English, Protestant, and white. This erroneous idea influences their whole outlook.