People who were so good. There were angels.

Well, we are terribly divided politically, yes, and, you know, I don't mean to intimidate you and your listeners but I have a master's degree in anthropology from the University of Chicago.

One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.

As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash.

I was taught in the sixth grade that we had a standing army of just over a hundred thousand men and that the generals had nothing to say about what was done in Washington. I was taught to be proud of that and to pity Europe for having more than a million men under arms and spending all their money on airplanes and tanks. I simply never unlearned junior civics. I still believe in it. I got a very good grade.

The hopes and fears of all our years are here with us tonight.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.