I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.

No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

Im sick and tired of old men sitting around in air conditioned rooms here in Washington, dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others. ... It means standing up for people who have been kept down.

Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our responsibilities for world peace. We are our brother's keeper.

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.

It's possible to dazzle a crowd if you really work at it. But that is no qualification for leadership. Hitler was a master of crowds.

I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.

The ruling passion be it what it will The ruling passion conquers reason still.

Thanks, but that's not going to fix anything. It's like putting a Band-Aid on a bullet wound.

I just really want to make albums - and however I can, I will.

The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was ablaze with scarlet umbrellas.

Whoever declares a child to be "delicate" thereby crowns and anoints a tyrant.

How we speak to our children and the words we use can encourage and uplift them and strengthen their faith.

If you are not willing to receive, then you are "ripping off" those who want to give to you.

I can't tell him I need him. I can't need him, period -- or really, we can't need each other, because who knows how long either of us will last in this war?