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Freedom rings where opinions clash.
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith... →
He who slings mud generally loses ground.
It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.