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

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.

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.

I’d like to see her have unlikable moments that the audience understands and sympathizes with.

Staying healthy is about really listening to your mind and body.

You don’t even have to have a good product.

From the Arabs I have learned one thing: if you are led by Authority, that means you are led by a halter.

That you have to do the heavy lifting while you’re here. And when you don’t, well, you suffer the consequences.

The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.

A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.

Should the political process not work, there is always the other approach.