My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.

Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism, are all too frequently those who . . . ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism-the right to criticize, the right to hold unpopular beliefs, the right to protest, the right of independent thought.

My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.

Freedom unexercised may be freedom forfeited. The preservation of freedom is in the hands of the people themselves - not of the government.

It is time that the great center of our people, who reject the violence and unreasonableness of both the extreme right and the extreme left, searched their consciences, mustered their moral and physical courage, shed their intimidated silence, and declare their consciences.

Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods

I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear.