America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation.

Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern, to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty to everything that is valid in Americanism.

History is organized memory, and the organization is all important!

America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation.

The greatest danger we face is not any particular kind of thought. The greatest danger we face is absence of thought.

Our best people don't go into politics.

It is sobering to recall that though the Japanese relocation program, carried through at such incalculable cost in misery and tragedy, was justified on the ground that the Japanese were potentially disloyal, the record does not disclose a single case of Japanese disloyalty or sabotage during the whole war.