The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use.

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.

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.

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.

A study in the Washington Post says that women havebetter verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.

Only if divine love burns in your heart can you awaken in a state of readiness, shaking off the paralyzing sleep that will overcome all humanity, believers and nonbelievers alike.

Everything is dead while it lives.

It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.

It's probably odd for someone to read an interview where the interviewee is worried about exposure while they're talking in an interview.

There's probably a bunch of Power Stripe floating through the Def Jam offices right now.

Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

What if a tree fell in the forest and no one knew it's biological name? Did it exist?

We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.

I have said a lot in the past and now I think it is best that I do not comment on what I think when I look at President Bush!