Occupation: Former Governor Of Illinois Birth: February 5, 1900 Death: July 14, 1965
Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in ….
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..
Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt….
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular..
We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that….
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance..
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers..
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction..
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….
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth..
The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject witho….
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….
You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad..
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….
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation..
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age..
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..
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present..
There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not..
A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you..
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody..