Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.

Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.

Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses...

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.

Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.

Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?

Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.

Light has come to the world and men loved darkness rather than light.

Before the seventeenth century, a child passed directly into the adult world between the ages of five and seven . . . then came the industrial revolution . . .so the child-centered home was born.

Morality is a subject to meddle in the affairs of other persons, guided by our preferences and convenience.

Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration.

Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.

He also has energy who cannot be deprived of it.

I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.

I feel alive when I feel ease of heart.

Numerals are images of amounts. But the amounts they represent are real.

Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by.