Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.
This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.
Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.
An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.
There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press. . . and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by book publishers and reviewers and by the producers of radio and television programs.
We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy.
Never insult seven men if you're only carrying a six shooter.
The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses. No creature who began as a mathematical improbability, who was selected through millions of years of unprecedented environmental hardship and change for ruggedness, ruthlessness, cunning, and adaptability, and who in the short ten thousand years of what we may call civilization has achieved such wonders as we find about us, may be regarded as a creature without promise.