Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised

The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To this the American people have committed.

Too few have the courage of my convictions.

When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.

Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.