The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.

Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.

When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.

For the first 25 years of my life, I wanted freedom. For the next 25 years, I wanted order. For the next 25 years, I realized that order is freedom.

When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.

We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.

Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn't know where he was going, he didn?t know where he was? and he did it all at taxpayers expense.