This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends to be even more ahistorical than most.

If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.

A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.

A society will be judged by how it treats its weakest members

There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.

All will concede that in order to have good neighbors, we must also be good neighbors. That applies in every field of human endeavor.