You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.

One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the nature of our country's peril. In time of war, the government and the press have customarily joined in an effort based largely on self-discipline, to prevent unauthorized disclosures to the enemy. In time of "clear and present danger," the courts have held that even the privileged rights of the First Amendment must yield to the public's need for national security.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.