If the national security is involved, anything goes. There are no rules. There are people so lacking in roots about what is properand what is improper that they don't know there's anything wrong in breaking into the headquarters of the opposition party.

Politicians aren't any more wicked than other citizens but the situation in which they are placed warps their judgment.

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by how one thinks and acts.

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

Democracy cannot long survive when the people permit their lives to be dominated - economically or politically - by a powerful few.

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

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.