Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend.

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend.

With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth.

You can't know who you are, as a nation or a people, unless you know where you've been.

Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.