In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.

But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.

The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law. Virtually there is one law for the rich and another for the poor, one law for the cunning and another for the simple, one law for the forceful and another for the feeble, one law for the ignorant and another for the learned, one law for the brave and another for the timid, and within family limits one law for the parent and no law at all for the child.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.