Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

He who thinks little errs much…

When it comes to suffering, appearance is everything.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

When Paris Hilton can top the bestsellers' lists, we are one more Connect Four move closer to Armageddon.

Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.

I'm not going to run for office. I don't think that's the right move for me.

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity.

The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed.

What has miserable, inefficient Mexico...to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?