The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

I think the motive force of all our action is, after all, personal happiness.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.

I spent a couple of years doing American films. I did a few.

A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.

You know how to drive a car, but you do not know how to drive your life!

Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.

The size of your faith or the degree of your knowledge is not the issue—it is the integrity you demonstrate toward the faith you do have and the truth you already know.

The problem for me with liberals is that we've abdicated our moral responsibility to the universe.