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

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.

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

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

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.

Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.

It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

Why do we consider that just because people have more money, they do not deserve it? It is totally wrong. They deserve everything they have earned.

The reality of it, excuse me, is when you're in the public they already have a perception of you, ... And that can be a little awkward.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

The link between rational individual behavior and collectively desirable outcomes is extremely tenuous.

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

Sleater-Kinney's biggest momentum was from the press - that, second to Radiohead, they got more positive press than any other band in America in the 90s.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.