There is as much difference between a collection of mentally free citizens and a community molded by modern methods of propaganda as there is between a heap of raw materials and a battleship.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.

Good God, is the man a heathen?’‘Worse, a capitalist with pretensions of culture.

There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.

Based on current surveys of public opinion in the United States, it turns out that the majority of Americans think I've done a pretty good job.

Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.

The world is changing isn't it? So you're not allowed to pray before a football game. I thought it was horrible.

Two decades from now, I doubt that the home building industry, so called, will even exist as we have known it.

My words are easy to understand and easy to perform, Yet no man under heaven knows them or practices them.

If the US economic landing is soft there will be no consequences (for Europe).

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Much of the left-liberal elite despise traditional religious beliefs ... in general, they are profoundly uncomfortable with religious institutions and the traditional values they embody.