History is not life, but since only life makes history, the union of the two is obvious.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature... and the thing which pleases us.

While friends are there to motivate us and keep us pleased. Our enemies are there to annoy us, which makes us work harder to beat them.

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks they are the summits of ranges.

I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it

Obsessing over the future is not how God wants us to live, because showing us the future is not God's way.

(Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart.

[Comics] were viewed as the literary equivalent of bubblegum cards, meant to be poked into the spokes of a young mind where they would produce a satisfying but entirely bogus rumble of pleasure.

To be a man you've gotta beat the man.

It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.

What does God need with a starship?