“Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.”

The ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal.

I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.

To act coolly, intelligently, and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation.

Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs.

In short, of tyranny – and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

That you can gather votes like box tops

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

You will go away with old, good friends. And don’t forget when you leave why you came.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled

I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war

And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say

The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.

If you want to have a finished product, at some point you have to say “enough.”

They’re dedicated, patriotic Americans. They will work with any president. They want to have a good relationship with every president.

The mask is torn off, while the reality remains

Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman.

For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.