When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

What seems new is only new to us.

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

the proper place to eat lobster ... is in a lobster shack as close to the sea as possible. There is no menu card because there is nothing else to eat except boiled lobster with melted butter.

The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.