A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.

Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.

The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

The beliefs which we have the most warrant for have no safeguard, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.

[T]he source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a moral being namely, that his errors are corrigible.

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed.

The federal government has a responsibility to protect all Americans from potential terrorist attack.

A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.

Atticus "What's this religion going to be called?" Oberon "Poochism" A:"and the name of this holy writ I will be typing for you?" O:"The dead flea scrolls: A Sirius Prophecy.

There is no truer saying than "Revenge is a dish best eaten cold." It is so much sweeter for the waiting, and my only regret is that I cannot broadcast my triumph to the world.

Become more and more innocent, less knowledgeable and more childlike. Take life as fun - because that's precisely what it is!

When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.

The wisdom of the Bible writers is more than human; the prophecies proclaim a Supreme Ruler who, though inhabiting all space, deigns to speak through the hearts and minds and tongues of His children.