True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective.

The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.

It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a few heroes, saints, and geniuses have been the captains of their souls for any extended period of their lives.

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

When everyone thinks the same, nobody is thinking.

Here lay the political genius of Franklin Roosevelt: that in his own time he knew what were the questions that had to be answered, even though he himself did not always find the full answer.