Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of the oppressor?

Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.

Judicious mothers will always keep in mind that they are the first book read, and the last put aside, in every childs library.

We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people.

Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul. The characteristics of the person in love must be attributed to love itself.

A protect-yourself-first-and-foremost idea has subverted the mission of law-enforcement officers, just as it may have degraded the military's.

It's sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we're shocked when we get good service.

You’re always working at the margin of what you don’t understand, that’s the only exhilarating place to be. To just illustrate what you already know is condescending, and a waste of your time.

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.

The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth.

Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis.

The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments.

It's the same as saying, you know, "I'll smoke, but that's up to me." Doctors don't recommend it. I don't recommend smoking. It's a bad idea. Smoking or spanking. Bad ideas.