“On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.”

And when we lose faith in the system

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.

If you are not wanting to do your work, why would a clone of you want to do your work?

Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.

If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.

Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.

I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.

Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.

We ask advice but we mean approbation.

The only way I know how to deliver is to focus; some people can turn it on or off – I’d rather stay in character.