No Republican presidential candidate is a viable option for pro-choice voters of any political philosophy - Democrat, Republican or otherwise.
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
The law is the survival of the fittest. . . . The law is not the survival of the 'better' or the 'stronger,' if we give to those words any thing like their ordinary meanings. It is the survival of those which are constitutionally fittest to thrive under the conditions in which they are placed; and very often that which, humanly speaking, is inferiority, causes the survival.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.
When I was younger, I thought I had to shut myself off, work really hard to cry. I learned after a while that that's just not. . . You know, often in life, you cry when you're caught off-guard. That's where I need to be when I'm acting, too.
It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.
Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns.
I love moving water, I love ships, I love the sharp definition, the concentrated humanity, the sublime solitude of life at sea. The dangers of it only make present to us the peril inherent in all existence, which the stupid, ignorant, un-travelled land-worm never discovers; and the art of it, so mathematical, so exact, so rewarding to intelligence, appeals to courage and clears the mind of superstition, while filling it with humility and true religion.