Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.

We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is.

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Making peace is harder than making war.

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

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

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

A hungry man is not a free man.

There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

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.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.

I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

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

Laws are never as effective as habits.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

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.

In quiet places, reason abounds.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Saskatchewan is much like Texas- except it's more friendly to the United States.

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

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

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.

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention.

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.

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.