A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.

There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject

Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.

It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.

The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.

I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing