Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.

A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free.

Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse.

Books cannot be killed by fire.