You can only be free if I am free.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate

I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

My father-in-law . . . was a great inspiration to me both in life and in his preparation for death.

Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part.

The problem with me in doing things simply is that I feel I'm not enough. It's all very embarrassing.

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.

Men without jobs do not form families.

One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.

A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.

I worked hard and smarter than most people in the businesses I have been in.

It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do.