The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may.

We've spent half the expenditures, we've wrecked our budget on all these other domestic programs, and the only justification for it, in my opinion, to do it in the pell-mell fashion is because we hope to beat them and demonstrate that starting behind them, as we did by a couple of years, by God, we passed them. I think it would be a helluva thing for us.

Peace is a process, a way of solving problems

Let us examine our attitude toward peace itself. Too many of us think it is impossible. Too many think it unreal. But that is a dangerous, defeatist belief. It leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable, that mankind is doomed, that we are gripped by forces we cannot control. We need not accept that view. Our problems are manmade; therefore they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as be wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead?

There is, in addition to a courage with which men die; a courage by which men must live.