I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.

Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood, or for an education, diminishes me.

When I feel the heat, I see the light.

When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

We have been through this biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.

Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.

A wedge of sunlight slipped over the edge of the desk and fell noiselessly to the carpet.

Keep dreaming is good sometimes- but don't dreaming too much cause its gonna make you stop dreaming suddenly

No female iniquity was more severely condemned than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.

Belief in oneself is required for healing.

He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.

O heart! love is thy bane and thy antidote.

If America puts the enmity aside, if it initiates good will, and if it compensates for the past, the future situation between the United States and Iran will change.

Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged.

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him