A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.

The power of the state is measured by the power that men surrender to it.

Socialism and federalism are necessarily political opposites, because the former demands that centralized concentration of power which the latter by definition denies.

It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic.

Intelligence plus experience creates ideas, and experimentation with that form of chemistry-the contact of ideas with events-is the field of adult education.

The State, in short, subjects people, whereas Society associates them voluntarily.

You are responsible for your choices, and your choices define who you are.

If you're authentic, people smile because they sense there's a piece of themselves there.

The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.

Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around.

In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.

No human walking the earth thinks of himself as a bullshitter.

When it comes to my family I never quite know how protective I have to be, or what I should or shouldn't say.

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.

Actors don't listen to each other. You're so obsessed with what you're saying or doing that the other person could be talking in Swahili and you wouldn't know.