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.

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

It is the absence of the knowledge of God and man’s refusal to obey Him that lie at the root of every problem which besets us.

Altering your perspective can provide you the luxury of seeing things for what they are, not what you wish them to be.

Edith (the future Mrs. Teddy Roosevelt) developed a lifelong devotion to drama and poetry. "I have gone back to Shakespeare, as I always do, " she would write seven decades later.

To place your horse's need for you to let him leave his failing body above your need to keep him with you - that - is the greatest and purest love.

Democracy is mob rule with income taxes.

I barely belong to this world, but still I'm participating.

The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are booby traps.

In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart.

I never received any encouragement. My father would work nights and my mother would work during the day. We were expected to get a job with a trade.

I don't think one can run out and try and chase love.