Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren't interested in), people don't speak their beliefs easily, or publicly.

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

I simply cannot accept that there are on every story two equal and logical sides to an argument.

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

Good night, and good luck.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

If none of us ever read a book that was "dangerous," had a friend who was "different," or joined an organization that advocated "change," we would all be the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants.

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

Her fear was infectious, and though I was too young to truly know terror, I felt it in my heart and trembled.

People who are different are beautiful. Those who follow society are boring.

Vision is not fiction

A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's tooth.

I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.

One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels.

It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away with this convention.

I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.

The one thing that gives you faith is the fact that people can be apart physically but they can still have an emotional connection.

I was friends with President Ronald Reagan and he once said to me, 'I don't know how anybody can serve in public office without being an actor.