The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.

Science is organized knowledge.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

All socialism involves slavery.

Government is essentially immoral.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

Fear is the foundation of safety.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.

Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.

I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I'm on and to relish each day as a gift.

We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.

I'm grateful for my brokenness. I'm grateful for my humility.

Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.

Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.