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

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

Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.

That if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

The dwelling place of the free mind.

I don’t want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

We have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

It is upon us whether we will it or not.

All committed, for our safety, to its security and peace.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree

It is not even a protection if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

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

That nations will come together not to destroy but to construct and that the future belongs to those who accomplish most for humanity.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.

A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake.

I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.