Occupation: Former Vice President Of The United States Birth: October 23, 1835 Death: June 14, 1914
Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses....
Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it..
A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can..
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely..
A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe..
[I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes….
An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics..
Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise..
The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to free….
Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul..
Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous..
Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?.
Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy..
I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere ….
Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks..
Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve..
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a….
It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming..
Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see th….
A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste..
A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble..