If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.