The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you.

- Elmer Davis

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

- Elmer Davis

Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.

- Elmer Davis

One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every …

- Elmer Davis

We have got to defeat this attack on the freedom of the mind...But it takes courage for a young man with a family to stand up to it; all the more obl…

- Elmer Davis

This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.

- Elmer Davis

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

- Elmer Davis

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what…

- Elmer Davis

All young people want to kick up their heels and defy convention; most of them would prefer to do it at a not too heavy cost.

- Elmer Davis