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

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.

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.

Accept that you are not finished, and a new and better life is just beginning.

Our sense of being a conscious agent who does things comes at a cost of being technically wrong all the time.

Love, simple word with brimming of blood.

How can we create a cultural legacy of happiness? Let other people matter.

I was very close to playing at an Ivy League School. The Division I schools, when a coach would come visit all he would talk about was my size.

I read the 'Deadpool' series back in the '90s. I'm not, like, a huge comic book reader, per say, though. I'll check out 'Archie' when I'm in the grocery line, but that's about it.

If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.

An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.

Every day that you live without proper breathing is another little step of submitting to stress and deterioration of your health.

My arm extended upward in pleading for peace and the Union of our Fathers... When my hand came down from that impassioned gesticulation, it fell slowly and sadly by the side of a Secessionist.