Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

None of us would trade freedom of expression for the narrowness of the public censor. America is a free market for people who have something to say, and need not fear to say it.

Slumism is the pent-up anger of people living on the outside of affluence. Slumism is decay of structure and deterioration of the human spirit. Slumism is a virus which spreads through the body politic. As other "isms," it breeds disorder and demagoguery and hate.

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

The road to freedom, here and everywhere, begins in the classroom.