The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.

Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.

God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.

Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.

Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.

How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants, its creeping, crawling, climbing creatures, the croaking things with wings that hang on rocks and soar through the fog, the furry grass, the scaly seas.