Occupation: Lawyer Birth: February 18, 1892 Death: October 8, 1944
A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years..
History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than fr….
When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored..
What a man needs to get ahead is a powerful enemy..
If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as….
No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights of e….
I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true..
Our way of living together in America is a strong but delicate fabric. It is made up of many threads. It has been woven over many centuries by the pa….
Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love..
I am not interested in the support of anybody who stands for any form of prejudice as to anybody's race or religion. . . . I have no place in my phil….
It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy….
No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war..
Tolerance is the assumption of superiority.
Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy..
To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress. Now more than ever we must keep in the foref….
Education is the mother of leadership..
The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant plac….
It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be st….
There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one..
Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor….
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones..