The worst effect of tutelage is that it negates self-discipline, and therefore people suddenly released from it are almost bound to make fools of themselves.

Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents.

What its children become, that will the community become.

No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely be trusted with absolute power.

There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."

the desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them upon contemporaries.

People never move towards revolution; they are pushed towards it by intolerable injustices in the economic and social order under which they live.

It is necessary to grow accustomed to freedom before one may walk in it sure-footedly.

You have forgotten the Onewho doesn't care about ownership, who doesn't try to turn a profitfrom every human exchange.

If we start preemptively cutting out parts of who we are because they’re ‘not feminist enough’, then we’ve failed before we’ve begun.

Embrace the future and keep your back up against the past.

In a world of limited resources, our wealth is at the expense of the poor. To put it simply, if we have it, others cannot.

By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.

Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.

Life ain't the movies.

The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.

There's one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might.

Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!