Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.

Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely.

Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth.

The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking power. This means to foster democratic freedom.

Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason for promoting freedom.

We have a solution for war. It is to expand the sphere of liberty.

But always, at moments when his mind was like a blind octopus, squirming in an agony of knife-cuts, she would drop in that accusation.

Lincoln admitted his infirmities to make way for his spring.

'Rubberneck' has nothing to do with comedy, nor does it follow comedic people.

Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.

Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.

If you have no destination, you'll never get there.

Marriage is not absolutely for making children. But it is absolutely for making children followers of Jesus.

It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.

For us, a pretty bird is a pretty bird; for an insect, pretty bird is an ugly enemy!

Memory is a fascinating trickster. Words and images have enormous power and can easily displace actual experience over the years.