[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

This is a court of law, not a court of justice.

My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

Certitude is not the test of certainty.

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.

Our worldly wisdom has made us calloused and hard. Our natural wisdom, as the Scriptures teach, comes not from God, but is earthly, sensual, and devilish.

Neither words can bring you back... I know now, as I have triedNot the tears... I know now, as I have cried

Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.

The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.

Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.

Learn to shake yourself loose from what the world believes is the only reality.

The student is to read history actively and not passively.

But I live very simply. I farm - there is something visceral about being attached to the land. I am a recording engineer. I do my own laundry most days and I get on with the business of living.

I've always been a rule-follower. Even when I was a kid, I tried to do everything by the book.