The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them.

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.

There can be no security where there is fear.

You are not a murderer. I find it difficult to think of that as a personality flaw.

A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.

So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth.

You have to be willing to expose yourself, at least to yourself, to get to some kind of truth about a character.

The greater our dread of crosses, the more necessary they are for us.

I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else is to observe life.

It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.

I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.

If someone had asked who could stage the best intervention with a crazy woman who had formerly been an undead monster, Sydney Sage would have been my last guess.

To get a man's attention, just stand in front of the TV and don't move. He'll talk to you. I promise.