Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.
To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
