“For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.”

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.

Is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity

There is a New America every morning when we wake up.

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

The externals are simply so many props; everything we need is within us.

And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven.

Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.

Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship, sailing across endless oceans, never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly, unexpectedly, it will find mooring for a moment.

Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.

Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.

You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.

Wine is a cunning wrestler.