Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production.

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.

If GOD can raise a dead man, then He can raise a living man's dead anything.

The world isn’t the place we are told to live in. It is another place entirely. We have both more choice, and less, than we are supposed to have.

If you are thinking today is nothing to do for me then there is some laziness in your mind and you don’t try to elaborate your thinking for future.

You must take the trouble discover a worthy purpose for being on this ever green earth.

You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books.

You don't go on "probably" when love and guns are in hand.

The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition!

I get really into shows, but then I have my brain shut off time.

My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to do that I wrote, I wrote, I wrote, at noon or 3:00 A.M. So as not to be dead.

I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.