It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.

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.

If you don't make the time to work on creating the life you want, you're eventually going to be forced to spend a LOT of time dealing with a life you don't want.

Mankind’s original destiny was to extend God’s glorious dominion of love throughout the earth

There is no elegance in this existence, nor grace in our lives. There is nothing poetic about feasting on blood that spills from torn flesh...

You light the Spark in my Bonfire Heart.

Put two macho groups together and give the first desperation and numbers, and the second truncheons and protective clothing, and the result is like a laboratory civil war.

Be selective about your external influences. Your multi-dimensional brain is influenced by everything you see, hear, read, smell, touch, feel or say.

We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exercising ourselves in goodness.

It's much easier to point out the problem than it is to say just how it should be solved.

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals.