When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.
There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.
Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.
The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.