"We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount... The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants."

"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."

"The majority of us are for free speech when it deals with subjects concerning which we have no intense feelings."

"Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times."

"The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum."

"Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal."

"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck."

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch."

"It is my belief that there are 'absolutes' in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what the words meant and meant their prohibitions to be 'absolutes'."

"Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purpose is beneficent."

"All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice."

"Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts."

"Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind."

"A conservative knows that there are limits to what we can change, that there are some things that government cannot and should not do. Liberals and socialists, on the other hand, are convinced that by interfering with the free market they can create a better economy, or that by social engineering they can create a new and improved human nature."

"One and God make a majority."

"The fate of empires depends on the education of youth."

"Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it. "

"Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind."