An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.

The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

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.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

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.

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Making peace is harder than making war.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.