I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.

There can be no security where there is fear.

What you believe you can receive if you doubt it you will do without it.

It is better for a soul to write the wonders of time while there is still breath.

May you find inner strength to overcome obstacles in life.

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

I think that initial independence is very important that's what being an entrepreneur is all about.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.

Only three men in the Confederate army knew what I was doing or intended to do; they were Lee and Stuart and myself.

The ant is a collectively intelligent and individually stupid animal; man is the opposite.