I'm very out of style. . . or I should say I have my own style.
I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means - to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal - would bring terrible retributions.
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.
All professions are. . . filled with demands.
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.
A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline.