Occupation: Former Governor Of Illinois Birth: February 5, 1900 Death: July 14, 1965
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff..
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse..
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum..
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation..
Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop..
As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end..
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind..
A hungry man is not a free man..
The university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teach….
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultim….
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will sto….
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its sec….
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith….
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime..
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another..
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny univers….
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater a….
When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide ….
On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died..
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans..
Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them..