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.

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.

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.

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.

Writers do not have the privilege of sleep. There is always a story coming alive in their heads, constantly composing. Whether they choose it or not.

And what is gossip anyway?Just fragments of sad accounts, maneuvered and mutilated year after year for our sinful pleasure.

An unhealthy life is destined to end with an unhealthy death.

Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.

I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves.

The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

To win hearts, smile kindly on people's weaknesses.

Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.

Our cultural instinct is to wait to get pickedNo one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.