There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed.

The advantages? Exercise, no parking problems, gas prices, it's fun. An automobile is expensive. You have to find a place to park and it's not fun. So why not ride a bicycle? I recommend it.

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts

It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty

The best clue to what a person thinks is what he says.

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost

Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.

It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.

Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.

Personal Responsibility is when a person refuses to run away from challenges and difficulties, when he refuses to blame others, when he decides to rise to the occasion.

Let's go downtown, " Dad said. "By the public library. You never know what wild and crazy things might be happening at the library.

Your history does not need to define your destiny.

Lazy people always work harder than anyone else; they're so eager to get through and lie down again.

These days I can't tell what I really feel.

In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.

The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the world.

You look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is.

Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.

I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.