I think if you'd had television cameras at Gettysburg, this would be two nations today. People would not have put up with that carnage if they saw it up close. We'd have elected McClellan in 1864.

Disparagement of television is second only to watching television as an American pastime.

All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority.

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life.

Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness.

Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.