The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen.

Liberty sustains the same relation to mind that space does to matter.

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences of nature. Receive new thoughts with hospitality. Let us advance.

When you go home you ought to go like a ray of light—so that it will, even in the night, burst out of the doors and windows and illuminate the darkness.

With every drop of my blood I hate and execrate every form of tyranny, every form of slavery. I hate dictation. I love liberty.

I swear that while I live I will do what little I can to preserve and to augment the liberties of man, woman, and

There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.

The theologians dead, knew no more than the theologians now living.

Whoever claims any right that he is unwilling to accord to his fellow-men is dishonest and infamous.

When all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.

Plans can break down. You cannot plan the future. Only presumptuous fools plan. The wise man steers.

Forever isn't important-it's now that counts. Doing the right thing.

I suspect states are going to realize there's money to be made, and they'll start to change laws so people can distil to sell. It happened with wine, it happened with beer.

When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.

There's a lot of active radical thought today but not much action.

God is the King. In him exists all legal authority

My wife she's fat. Why, if she lost a few pounds, she'd be perfectly round.

You must know, rest in, think through, and act upon your new identity - you are in Christ

Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is A child's laughter, a woman's kiss.

Life keeps getting better. If anything, you start to carry a certain pride in having survived all those years.