Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.

The real threat, as seen by the ACLU, is that religious behavior might give secular behavior a bad name, and that is, surely, unconstitutional.

Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them

In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think . . . but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the suggestion that he is the flesh-and-blood tribute to the success of his indoctrinators.

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

If Bach is not in Heaven, I am not going!

The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.