Learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being.

Was there ever a time when the majority was right?

I believe in - I am proud to belong to - the United States.

My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.

Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.

Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries - but it is a force stronger than crime.