We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force.

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.

Eat Ice Cream. Read Books. Be Happy.

Writing is a conduit. It opens up a passageway into the past. Not just for the writer, but for the reader too. Both readers and writer are linked by the commonality of human experience.

The mainstream media doesn't want to get into this because they don't want to know where this one goes.

Successful people are willing to do things unsuccessful people will not do.

He nods. "My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it's turning me on.

Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.

I suppose he must have taken about a nine or something in hats. Shows what a rotten thing it is to let your brain develop too much.

Why does one exist? That's not my problem. One does exist. The thing to do is to take no notice but go at it on the run and to keep on going right on until you die.

Way up in the nosebleeds we watched him on the screen, they'd hung between the billboards so cheaper seats could see.

How now, wit! Whither wander you?