Life in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose adjustment so that it may be endurable is an extraordinarily troublesome matter.

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.

In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.

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

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understands the minds of other men and women.

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)

Prayer is communication. You talk, God listens. You listen when God talks.

A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.

This possibility to change reality, which exists in everyone, represents the real freedom of every human individual. He has an enormous possibility to change his world view.

We was half stupid, a third lucky, and three-quarters ferocious.

Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they’re waiting for someone to say, "You’re good, you’re pretty, I give you permission."

Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.

I'm Joan of Arc. I figured we had a lot in common, seeing as how I was almost burned at the stake. And plus she had that close relationship with God.

Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty

By burning nuclear waste as fuel, we believe we can power the United States cleanly for hundreds of years without ever touching new resources.