Occupation: Former Governor Of Illinois Birth: February 5, 1900 Death: July 14, 1965
Freedom rings where opinions clash..
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation..
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers..
We have confused the free with the free and easy..
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….
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….
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….
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction..
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….
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 ….
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans..
I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly..
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth..
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..
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention..
The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty..
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day..
You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we ….
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard..