“All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.”

“Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.”

“She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.”

“Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.”

“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.”

“I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them”

“I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.”