A vigorous democracy a democracy in which there are freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech would never succumb to communism or any other ism.

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

Freedom is not won on the battlefields. The chance for freedom is won there. The final battle is won or lost in our hearts and minds.

Democracy cannot long survive when the people permit their lives to be dominated - economically or politically - by a powerful few.

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by how one thinks and acts.

To be free you must afford freedom to your neighbor, regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin, and that sometimes, for some, is very difficult.

Politicians aren't any more wicked than other citizens but the situation in which they are placed warps their judgment.

I never felt I left the stage.

There is no danger is letting people have their say. ... There is a danger when you try to stop them from saying it.

The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry rot which eats away at the foundations of our democratic faith.

Such pip-squeaks as Nixon and McCarthy are trying to get us so frightened of Communism that we'll be afraid to turn out the lights at night.

With the known, you simply repeat the process. With the unknown, you access the new doorways to life.

Bad habit, lunch. A banana and a water biscuit is all any sane healthy man should need in the middle of the day.

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

I've wanted to be an actor ever since I was a little boy.

The radio is just a stereo like a house ain't a home.

If you [Americans] behave with disrespect - even just a little bit - [the Iranian people] will punch you in the mouth so hard that all your devouring teeth will fall off.

People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?

His gaze brushed over her, abstract and hungry. "You burn so very brightly, you know" "Yeah," she muttered. "You said.

Don't stint on foreplay - or afterplay. Be inventive!

But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow.