The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

This man, Comrades, has a nice smile, but he has iron teeth.

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

A Socrates in every classroom.

There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.

Could Hamlet have been written bya committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the NewTestament have been composed as a conference report?

Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.

Who can stand the weight of God's wrath?

People never forget two things, their first love and the money they wasted watching a bad movie.

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

Faith that is not evidenced by a life of integrity is not biblical faith at all.

I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.

Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful. “How do you know a match don't hurt him?” “Turtles can't feel, stupid,” said Jem. “Where you ever a turtle, huh?

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.

I've always paid my own way, I've never lived off anyone.

We were good reformers, but we weren't good enough. We elected a candidate and then, busy with our own affairs, we left him hanging in mid-air. Reformers are such part-time pillars of society!

It's unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive.