Great Throughts Treasury

"Voting is a civic sacrament."

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."

"All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance."

"Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus."

"It's like having a cobra in the nursery with your grandchildren. You get rid of the cobra or you won't have any grandchildren."

"My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they're popular; you make them because they're right."

"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet."

"It is easier to exemplify values than teach them."

"I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another?"