The price of freedom is responsibility, but it's a bargain, because freedom is priceless.
Hugh DownsThis country is a one-party country. Half of it is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn't make any difference. All the really good ideas belong to the Libertarians.
Hugh DownsTo say, my fate is not tied to your fate, is like saying your end of the boat is sinking.
Hugh DownsThere are more stars known to exist right now than the total number of all the grains of sand on every beach in the entire world. With those kinds of odds, it would seem downright naive for someone to go to a beach in, say, some out-of-the-way inlet in Baffin Bay, stoop to pick up only one tiny grain of sand, and declare that that grain alone was the only place where life could exist.
Hugh Downs