Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.
There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.
I am an enemy of the State. But isn't everyone?
It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.
If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.