“If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.”

“Learn as much by writing as by reading.”

“History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.”

“And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.”

“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

“Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.”

“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

“Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.”

“Immer wieder behauptete Unwahrheiten werden nicht zu Wahrheiten, sondern, was schlimmer ist, zu Gewohnheiten.”