The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.

Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.

This is a fight between a free world and a slave world.

The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.

Scientific understanding is our joy. Economic and political understanding is our duty.

The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It's giving that person a lot of power.

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

I wanted to be a singer. I wanted to be a musician. I wanted to travel and write songs and be a good songwriter. It came to me slowly after college.

Drunk all the time, feeling fine on elderberry wine.

My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.

Life, without the dignity of an intelligent being, is not worth having.

I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.

I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.