Archived Quotes

Never pick a fight with people

who buy ink by the barrel.

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is

prepared for a master, and deserves one.

The purpose of education is

to make good human beings

with skill and expertise...

Enlightened human beings

can be created by teachers.

There is no distinctly American criminal class

except Congress.

Two roads diverged in a wood,

and I—I took the one less traveled by,

and that has made all the difference.

Being elected to Congress,

though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it,

has not pleased me as much as I expected.

As a well

spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed

everything save our modes of thinking and

we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun

Anything that won't sell,

I don't want to invent.

Its sale is proof of utility,

and utility is success.

A noble character is the highest possible attainment of humanity.

The only obligation we have is to do what we love.

Technology is nothing.

What's important is that you have a faith in people,

that they're basically good and smart.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers.

This is a cruel libel,

even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

What is a farm but a mute gospel?

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,

is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Those who can make you believe absurdities

can make you commit atrocities.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves;

and under the rule of a just God,

cannot long retain it.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes

liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.

Destroy this spirit and you have planted

the seeds of despotism around your own doors.