You can't prove you're an American by waving Old Glory.

If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

Such pip-squeaks as Nixon and McCarthy are trying to get us so frightened of Communism that we'll be afraid to turn out the lights at night.

A vigorous democracy a democracy in which there are freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech would never succumb to communism or any other ism.

To be free you must afford freedom to your neighbor, regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin, and that sometimes, for some, is very difficult.

We cannot legislate equality but we can legislate ... equal opportunity for all.

The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems.