Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

All Socialism involves slavery.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

Jousting with an obvious hoodlum couldn't hurt.

I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side.

Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives.

[Being a coach] is totally different, but I have a new level of respect for coaching that I didn't as a player. So much is expected of you and from your team. Everything falls on your shoulders.

Private businesses ought to get to discriminate.

History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely audible.

Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.

There is no free market for oil.

I don't deal with fools terribly lightly, and I think under any definition the man's a fool.

As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.