The old idea of a good bargain was a transaction in which one man got the better of another. The new idea of a good contract is a transaction which is good for both parties to it.

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.

When I get lemon juice in a cut..it hurts..but then I remember all who would die for that lemon I am quiet and take the pain for what it is... because that is what it is to live.

You are not a real thinker if your thoughts haven't landed you in trouble yet

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.

I walked all those miles, I learned all those lessons. It's as if my new life was the gift I got at the end of a long struggle.

In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.

That was totally against the runaway

You are dependent if you allow the weaknesses of other people to ruin your emotional life!

Actors are players and if they're hot, or onto something, you let them go, or you and the actor can both get on to something. I always run out with lines as I think of them.