“We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.”

There is…a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied..

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

And when we lose faith in the system

So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Someone asked me…how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow-townsman of ours used to tell–Abraham Lincoln.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

The law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

There is no evil in the atom; only in men’s souls.

When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

That’s how clueless I was. I just thought I could show up.

Dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil

The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.

Enslaving them forever, then murdering them, THEN calling them ‘dumb’!!!

The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.

He never makes a mistake; but, if his adversary commits the slightest error, he is lost.

Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you’re lucky.

Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.