Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
Not to destroy but to construct, I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war that nations will come together not to destroy but to construct and that the future belongs to those who accomplish most for humanity.
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.
I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
A hungry man is not a free man.
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
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, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.
Freedom rings where opinions clash.
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
We have confused the free with the free and easy.
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.
The university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers, ... the dwelling place of the free mind.
Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
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