The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry rot which eats away at….

Nothing can be controlled by one country today; nothing..

You can't prove you're an American by waving Old Glory..

The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems..

I know the force women can exert in directing the course of events..

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.

Democracy cannot long survive when the people permit their lives to be dominated - economically or politically - by a powerful few..

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by how one thinks and acts..

The first step toward liberation of any group is to use the power in hand... And the power in hand is the vote..

To be free you must afford freedom to your neighbor, regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin, and that sometimes, for some, is very diff….

If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains..

Politicians aren't any more wicked than other citizens but the situation in which they are placed warps their judgment..

There is no danger is letting people have their say. ... There is a danger when you try to stop them from saying it..

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs. I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, o….

A vigorous democracy a democracy in which there are freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech would never succ….

If the national security is involved, anything goes. There are no rules. There are people so lacking in roots about what is properand what is imprope….

If you tell me that there are obstacles in the way of your ambition that make it impossible to pursue, then I know it's not a real ambition. There ar….

You cannot barter security for freedom, or freedom for security..

Freedom is not won on the battlefields. The chance for freedom is won there. The final battle is won or lost in our hearts and minds..

if we pursue the arms race no other problem will be solved..

Such pip-squeaks as Nixon and McCarthy are trying to get us so frightened of Communism that we'll be afraid to turn out the lights at night..