Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

I simply cannot accept that there are on every story two equal and logical sides to an argument.

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

Good night, and good luck.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

If none of us ever read a book that was "dangerous," had a friend who was "different," or joined an organization that advocated "change," we would all be the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants.

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

All you need is what you have.

It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

I know just enough about thermodynamics to understand that if it takes too much fossil-fuel energy to create ethanol, that's a very stupid way to solve an energy problem.

I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.

If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it.

We are natural mind changing entities until we are 10 or so. But as we get older...then it is very hard to change our minds

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life.

Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.