I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist's trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.

The seed of revolution is repression.

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

No man can be just who is not free.

The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomacand that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States.

You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand