Corporations have at different times been so far unable to distinguish freedom of speech from freedom of lying that their freedom has to be curbed.

The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.

All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.

History is the memory of things said and done.

No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected . . . to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class.

History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.

To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.

Vanity is man's love affair with himself.

This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.

Don't pay attention to negative peer and societal pressures. They can never add more success and happiness to your life

Once a year go somewhere you have never been before.

I could have rolled the ball up there against Musial, and he would have pulled out a golf club and hit it out.

If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.

(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.

Each one must learn for himself the highest wisdom. It cannot be taught. You have the wisdom of your race. Be content.

Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable.

Oftentimes people get it wrong when they say we need to educate voters first and then give them power. I tend to favor giving them power first.