How amazing it is that friendships can become so full that you can't imagine what your life was like before them.
What every college must do is hold up before the young the spectacle of greatness.
Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
It is sobering to recall that though the Japanese relocation program, carried through at such incalculable cost in misery and tragedy, was justified on the ground that the Japanese were potentially disloyal, the record does not disclose a single case of Japanese disloyalty or sabotage during the whole war.
A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.
We cannot have a society half slave and half free; nor can we have thought half slave and half free. If we create an atmosphere in which men fear to think independently, inquire fearlessly, express themselves freely, we will in the end create the kind of society in which men no longer care to think independently or to inquire fearlessly.
The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause trouble for governments they no longer trusted.
One day, a pretty, fresh-faced young lady - intelligent and sincerely concerned - asked me if abortion wasn't preferable to making a young, unmarried girl have a baby she didn't want and which would, therefore, grow up unloved and probably turn out to be a criminal. I gave an answer which apparently she hadn't considered. I told her there were literally millions of people in this country who wanted but could not have children and who waited eagerly, sometimes for years, to adopt the baby she had described.
Customer service is the new marketing.
Im Southern, so alligator tail is pretty interesting and yummy.
Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.