The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

We don't want to be like the leader in the French Revolution who said There go my people, I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.

I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy and effete. We have done both an injustice. The life of the artist is, in relation to his work, stern and lonely. He has labored hard, often amid deprivation, to perfect his skill. He has turned aside from quick success in order to strip his vision of everything secondary or cheapening. His working life is marked by intense application and intense discipline.