[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.

Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.

There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the gift of kindness or courage or loyalty or integrity. It really matters very little whether they are behind the wheel of a truck or running a business or bringing up a family. The teach the truth by living it.

Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.