Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.

Politicians and diapers have one thing in common --- they both should be changed regularly and for the same reason!

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.