The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream.

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.

Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.

About half the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should shut up.

Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.

Moral disarmament is to safeguard the future; material disarmament is to save for the present, that there may be a future to safeguard.

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.

It is not a question of religion, or of creed, or of party; it is a question of declaring and maintaining the great American principle of eternal separation between Church and State.

It seems that there's a part of our psyche that doesn't know the difference between an agreement about cleaning the garage and an agreement about buying a company

Sometimes impossible things are true things.

Scarlett kicked the coverlet in impotent rage, trying to think of something bad enough to say.'God's nightgown!' she cried at last, and felt somewhat relieved.

Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started.

A truly international field, no Britons involved.

I'm a quiet person's nightmare - the only time I shut up is when I'm reading, because I'm a book geek.

Don't let the things you don't have prevent you from using what you do have.

Her life was like running on a treadmill or riding on a stationary bike; it was aerobic, it was healthy, but she wasn't going anywhere.

The Land of Promise is for those who simply remain to the end.

I used to hit the kitchen lights, cockroaches everywhere. Hit the kitchen lights, now it's marble floors everywhere.