“Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would never you would not here of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.”

“From what I understand from doctors, pregnancy (as a result of rape) is really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.”

“I do not like to write – I like to have written.”

“I don’t hate people, I just feel better when they’re not around.”

“I like your Christ; I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”

“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

“A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.”

“Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.”

“Republicans approve of the American farmer, but they are willing to help him go broke. They stand four-square for the American home – but not for housing. They are strong for labor – but they are stronger for restricting labor’s rights. They favor minimum wage – the smaller the minimum wage the better. They endorse educational opportunity for all – but they won’t spend money for teachers or for schools. They think modern medical care and hospitals are fine – for people who can afford them. They consider electrical power a great blessing – but only when the private power companies get their rake-off. They think American standard of living is a fine thing – so long as it doesn’t spread to all the people. And they admire our Government of the United States so much that they would like to buy it.”

“There is only one success – to be able to live your life in your own way and not to give others absurd, maddening claims upon it.”

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

“The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion or of dissent which he so stridently demands for himself. He cannot trust democracy.”

“When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.”

“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”

“Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.”

“We are not a household. We are an economy. Your spending is my income, and my spending is your income.”

“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.”

“The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.”

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”