Elmer Davis Quotes

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.

Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.

The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you.

We have got to defeat this attack on the freedom of the mind...But it takes courage for a young man with a family to stand up to it; all the more obligation on those of us who have nothing left to lose. At any age it is better to be a dead lion than a living dog - though better still, of course, to be a living and victorious lion - but it is easier to run the risk of being killed (or fired) in action if before long you are going to be dead anyway. This freedom seems to me the chief consolation of old age.

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

The only identification that would be inscribed on any cat's collar would be "This is the cat's cat."

All young people want to kick up their heels and defy convention; most of them would prefer to do it at a not too heavy cost.