Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

All men are equal before fish.

To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.

Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.

Having total belief in your own efforts can't help much but can only be your best point of total failure.

The reward for attention is always healing.

One must open men's eyes, not tear them out.

But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.

Two men looked out from prison bars, One saw the mud, the other saw stars.

I never imagine myself as anything. I've never had a goal or any future vision at all. I just do what's in front of me.

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?

As you die continually when living. So do you live continually when dead; if not in this body, then in a body of another form.

I was and am, like many women, both pro-life and pro-choice.