“We have confused the free with the free and easy.”

So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

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 keep myself amused and others confused

People think that if you’ve written a book and somebody’s given you a pat on the back then, you know, it’s all – you’re all settled, you know? You’re going to be fine. I know that if I’m not confused, and really afraid, my work isn’t going to be any good.

I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.

Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering.

I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts – facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.

A great many of us have confused change with progress.

In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I’m a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive.

I’m confused. Really, really confused.