had gotten in trouble from talking too much. - Robert A. Caro

The air of compromise is rarely appreciated fully by men of principle. C. Vann Woodward

silence is the weapon, silence and people’s need to fill it

He told them a story — “the little baby in the cradle,” as a student would call it. “He would tell us that one day we might say the baby would be a teacher. Maybe the next day we’d say the baby would be a doctor. And one day we might say the baby — any baby — might grow up to be President of the United States.