The application of collective guilt, running from one generation to another, is a dangerous doctrine which would leave few modern nations unscathed.

Of course you have a duty to show the disfigurations of society as well as its more agreeable aspects. But if TV in the western world uses its freedom continually to show all that is worst in our society, while the centrally controlled television of the Communist world and the dictatorships show only what is judged advantageous to them and suppress everything else, how are the uncommitted to judge between us? How can they fail to misjudge if they view matters only through a distorted mirror?

No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease.

The government has no money of its own. It's all your money.

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty - the only one. People went to America to be free.

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.