“An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.”
Politics“Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.”
Faith“An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.”
Politics“We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.”
Future“We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.”
Equality“Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.”
Faith“I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.”
Forgiveness“The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.”
Society“Nature is neutral.”
Nature“If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.”
Truth“A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you.”
Beauty“Freedom rings where opinions clash.”
Freedom“Your days are short here this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.”
Truth“Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.”
Age“Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.”
Beauty“The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.”
Politics“Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.”
Age“After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.”
Peace“We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.”
Peace“That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.”
Wisdom“The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.”
Peace“Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.”
Death