To reject the word is to reject the human search.

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.

It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give any meaning to the efforts at military security.

Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.