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

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.

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.

men never would share power with women willingly. If we wanted it, we would have to take it.

You ought to pray and read the Bible concurrently. You cannot pray effectively without reading the Bible and the vice versa.

Even those of us who are very very aware are still so unaware. Everything's relative so that, the more you know, the more you know you don't know anything.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is not.

The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean.

If worse comes to worst, I say clearly - a soldier must follow military orders.

However time or circumstances may come between mother and her child, their lives are interwoven forever.

Find your horse. Discover the direction the horse is going. Ride the horse in that direction.

The truth is... I gave my heart away a long time ago, my whole heart... and I never really got it back.

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

It is not enough to wire the world if you short-circuit the soul. Technology without heart is not enough.