Liberties are not given, they are taken.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better

For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of Battles; but what an outcry there would be if anyone spoke of him as the God of Brothels.

If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.

Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music, bright lights...and in next to no time you can reduce them to a state of almost mindless subhumanity. Never before have so few been in a position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many.