Occupation: Former Governor Of Illinois Birth: February 5, 1900 Death: July 14, 1965
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age..
You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad..
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular..
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance..
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody..
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..
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..
I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how….
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….
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 ….
As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end..
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans..
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another..
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation..
Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them..
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..
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum..
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse..
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….
Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop..