It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

Education is the mother of leadership.

I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.

Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights of every citizen.

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.

I am not interested in the support of anybody who stands for any form of prejudice as to anybody's race or religion. . . . I have no place in my philosophy for such beliefs.

And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.

It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.

I miss talking to her and talking to her used to make me feel alive

How did you do that?” Mr. Poe asked. “Nice girls shouldn’t know how to do such things.”“My sister is a nice girl, ” Klaus said, “and she knows how to do all sorts of things.

Every founder has to delude themselves into thinking, "Yes, it's going to be big. It's going to take over the world."

It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.

I'm mindful in a free society that people can worship if they want to or not. You're equally an American if you choose to worship an almighty and if you choose not to.

There is evidence that Democrates were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.

Flowers are nice, but love is better.

There was a silence. Then Paul looked at Alex. 'She knows Chesterton.' 'She lives,' said Alex.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

I think that if you have a strong narrative, if the idea of the song can be boiled down to the basics, it won't change that much.