Freedom is not free. It is bought at a high price. It can be squandered cheaply.

I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.

One of the things we must be able to agree to is to lose an election and not take to the streets.

In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.

It's the nature of government, to build enduring institutions, structures that stay long after their purpose is over. If you pay people to help the poor, you have people who won't be paid if there aren't any poor, so they'll be sure to find some.

I am sure it has been done with less, but you should be prepared to write and throw away a million words of finished material. By finished, I mean completed, done, ready to submit, and written as well as you know how at the time you wrote it. You may be ashamed of it later, but that's another story.

Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.