There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.

Education is the mother of leadership.

I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.

Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights of every citizen.

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.

I am not interested in the support of anybody who stands for any form of prejudice as to anybody's race or religion. . . . I have no place in my philosophy for such beliefs.

And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.

[Children] just cannot be sad too long, it is not in them, as children mourn in little bits here and there like patchwork in their lives.

Kindness is the fragrance of pure love.

True love is the most rare thing in the world. Most people just pretend to love.

Not one change of species into another is on record ... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.

I've never regretted a swim

One drop of Christ's blood is worth more than heaven and earth.

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.

Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.

It's easy to live the expected and conventional. It's when you live the unexpected that you start having fun with your life.

Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?