Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who are from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts, but brothers, not rivals, but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence...The difference... is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging.