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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.

The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.

Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.

The prices are ridiculous ... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?

If you think there's a bogeyman -
turn on the light.

Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?

The United States is not a nation of people which in the long run allows itself to be pushed around.

Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

When liberty is taken away by force, it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished by default it can never be recovered.

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.

Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit.

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear.

A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph.

After the earthquake and the fire comes the still, small voice.