As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.

The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.

The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.

As a general principle, I should put it that a man's country is where the things he loves are most respected. Circumstances may have prevented his ever setting foot there, but it remains his country.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

There's only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...

As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.

I have often wondered why the sounds of the beating drums do not make the marching soldiers shoot their officers and go home.

For the majority of people liberty means only the system and the administrators they are used to.

Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do.

My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.

I'm inspired when I find out about something that I didn't know was a remake.

Michael has a connection with children, just like Mickey Mouse does, and he brings happiness to them, and joy.

One of the things I've always tried to do is to inject myself as much as possible into the movie, so I feel like it's mine.

Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

Don't apologize for asking for what you deserve.

Mars is empty now. Five hundred years from now, it'll be full of people.

And of course I'm in the press all the time. So many books have been written about me; Into thin air, up in the air,Gone with the wind-

With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.