Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions.

This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.

Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else.

I have come to the conclusion that there is nothing good that doesn't have bad consequences and nothing bad that doesn't have good consequences.

To everything there is a season.