If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.

You can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the people -- and, alas, their folly with it. But if there is freedom, folly will die of its own poison, and the wisdom will survive.

Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.

I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.