As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.

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.

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.

Vote against anything introduced with a "re" in it, especially reforms, reorganizations, and recodifications. This usually means going back to something that failed once and is likely to do so again.

We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible.

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

Anything said three times in Washington becomes a fact.

My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee.

The church is a storehouse of spiritual food whereby the inner man is fed, nourished, and developed into maturity. If it fails, it is not fulfilling its purpose as a church.

Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions.

Values carry the message of shared purposes, standards and conceptions of what is worth living for and what is worth striving for.

A novel is a static thing that one moves through a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope.

If you want to get to the castle, Groceries, you've got to swim the moat.

I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.

No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.

The problem turned out to be that I never was that kind of an artist.