The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said.

There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don't pan out.

[The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to protect the people against bureaucracy, against the government.

The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification.

Of course the president Donald Trump said he wants to get to the truth. He always says that. But I think we all know that those words do not speak as loudly as his actions.

Trust is not what the framers of the United States constitution and of this country relied on.

Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equality at the League of Nations, but Woodrow Wilson overturned it in the face of majority support.

I'm a big old romantic.

When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing.

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.

I am not a scientist. I have never analyzed the far reaches of the solar system through the lens of a telescope nor scrutinized cancer cells under a microscope.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.

Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it.

Guard your tongue from praise as you have guarded it from blame.