The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for the sect that can win political power.

It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power.

I see no reason why I should be consciously wrong today because I was unconsciously wrong yesterday.

The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.

One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election.

The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it.

The very purpose of a bill of rights is to withdraw certain subjects from...political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities.

Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

Dancing with a spinal cord injury is a challenge like no other, but I aspired to prove to myself that I could still be phenomenal dancer even with an SCI

Life is not just something that happens to us it has its lessons for us.

The greatest inspiration you can find in this world is "YOU" when you help someone, encourage them, praise them, smile at them or just be kind to them that is a huge Inspiration to you and them!!

My most important title is still “mom-in-chief.” My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more and becoming more of a character in yourself.

There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.

The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own

My iCloud keeps telling me to back it up, and I'm like, 'I don't know how to back you up. Do it yourself!'

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.