The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.

It is within the bonds of marriage that I, for one, found a greater freedom to be and to become and to share myself thatn I can imaine ever having found in any other kind of relationship.

Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.

The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.

This life is but the childhood of our immortality.

Never befuddle a solitary thrashing with a last annihilation.

We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.

If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.

when you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most.

Dreams are only the image of outward things shown on an inward mirror. But the mirror is the soul's enclosing darkness.

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.