Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

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

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.