“A hungry man is not a free man.”
“Laws are never as effective as habits.”
“Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.”
“We have confused the free with the free and easy.”
“Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.”
“Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.”
“Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.”
“Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.”
“The human race has improved everything, but the human race.”
“Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.”
“On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.”
“Under the wide and starry sky. Dig the grave and let me lie.”
“A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.”
“Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.”
“The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.”
“All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.”
“In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.”
“It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!”
“It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”
“A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.”
“I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.”
“Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.”
“Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.”
“An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.”
“We mean by ''politics'' the people's business -- the most important business there is.”
“The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.”
“I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.”
“A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.”
“Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.”
“What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.”