“The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.”

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

The university is the archive of the Western mind, it’s the keeper of the Western culture, …

It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one?

Confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

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

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man – not a color.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

By better cars on longer credit terms.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship

But a newspaper can always print a retraction.

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

When you’re all burned up, then you become light.

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

How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!

She’s a queen that grew in storms. Her heart may be drenched in rain, but her soul holds power of thunder, so you better pray you never see her lightening.

We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.

To have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.

Who a person is will ultimately determine if their brains, talents, competencies, energy, effort, deal-making abilities, and opportunities will succeed.