Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.

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.

If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?

Just remember: when your nerd talks to someone about "man tar", it has nothing to do with the stickiness on your sheets.

All my life I have longed to have a loving relationship that would last a lifetime.

You know what animals exist in the desert. He's going to his indigenous natural habitat. What better place for night crawlers?

I'm not going to be a name chaser. I just love to fight.

You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.

Habit is everything, even in love.

See, I'm a believer that people are born with a sense of cooking. It's something within them that really gives them the ability to create and to understand flavors.

In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

I have come to the conclusion that it is better to be silent than to speak.