Nature is neutral.
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
Freedom rings where opinions clash.
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
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.
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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.
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
