"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"
"Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be"
"You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table"
"We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is"
"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"
"The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum"
"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"
"On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers"
"Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation"
"Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate"
"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"
"An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics"
"A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation"