 That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. |
| We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft. |
| Making peace is harder than making war. |
| He who slings mud generally loses ground. |
| Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age. |
| An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. |
| A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. |
| I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school. |
| We have confused the free with the free and easy. |
| Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard. |
| I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way. |
| Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction. |
| Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation. |
| I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. |
| Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for. |
| The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small. |
| 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. |
| We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present. |
| Some people approach every problem with an open mouth. |
| You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad. |
