It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.

I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky can be seen. Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.

The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.

Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.

A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.

[I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation. There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.

A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.