Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

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

The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.

I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.

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.

Every one expects to go further than his father went; every one expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart - to exceed all the other generations of the past in all the things that make life worth living.

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.