All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!

Presley brought an excitement to singing, in part because rock and roll was greeted as his invention, but for other reasons not so widely reflected on: Elvis Presley had the most beautiful singing voice of any human being on earth.

Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.

History is but the polemics of the victor.

[The] act of gratitude is nowadays is probably more often neglected than overdone.