Occupation: Former Governor Of Illinois Birth: February 5, 1900 Death: July 14, 1965
Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol..
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime..
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be..
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no….
In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes..
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age..
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small..
A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you..
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….
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse..
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind..
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….
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum..
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….
Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop..
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse..
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff..
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….
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..
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another..