Occupation: Former Governor Of Illinois Birth: February 5, 1900 Death: July 14, 1965
Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you..
As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end..
Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket..
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable..
Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel t….
You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table..
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance..
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale..
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 ….
The human race has improved everything, but the human race..
The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end..
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations–great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of t….
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice..
I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school..
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….
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….
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….
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….
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff..
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..
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse..