I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.

Brave hearts fall on their knees only in prayer.

What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?

If you sweep a woman off of her feet, make sure your character is strong enough to keep her in the air.

The multitude . . . have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them. . . . It is not safe to trust to the virtue of any people.

You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.

Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there.

Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

I think everyone knows how much of a joint effort being in politics is. It requires all kinds of sacrifices and all kinds of support.

Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.

We cannot have a free market since it does not really set us free. It's free for interest, speculation and consumerism to create false needs.