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.

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.

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.

Our selves are are rough and unrehearsed tales we tell the world.

A good man will find that there is goodness in the world; an honest man will find that there is honesty in the world; and a man of principle will find principle and integrity in the hearts of others.

You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.

If one really thinks about the body as such, there is no possible outline of the body as such.

I believe in miracles . . . prayers that are answered and healing hands.

We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.

It's the effort, not the results that matter.

I guess you'd say, including the - what I just spoke about, the learning that liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be.

I'm not happy on vacation. In those rare times when I have three hours with no work I have to do, I'm terribly uncomfortable.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.