The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make anything of the collective effort of shaping their economic society, now expect fortune to descend like pie from the sky.

A people's speech is the skin of its culture.

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.

If you mean by capitalism the God-given right of a few big corporations to make all the decisions that will affect millions of workers and consumers and to exclude everyone else from discussing and examining those decisions, then the unions are threatening capitalism.

The Russians train; they do not dare educate.

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

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