There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.
Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is their conviction that without freedom human life is not worth living.
What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
We came together [with King Hussein of Jordan] because of a shared sense of idealism, of the value of service to a community far greater than ourselves, and the conviction that each and everyone of us can meaningfully contribute to solving even the most seemingly intractable problems.
What chiefly governs the [U. S. ] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is simply a receptacle for wasteful expenditure, just as a city dump is the receptacle for the refuse of a city.
A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
Most people work all week to get to the weekend. A few work all weekend for years to get to freedom.