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It's often better to be in chains than to be free.
Our world is merely a practical joke of God.
I don't spend much time thinking about whether God exists. I don't consider that a relevant question. It's unanswerable and irrelevant to my life, so I put it in the category of things I can't worry about.
So act as to treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as a means only.
Two things fill my mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe: The starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
All this and heaven too.
Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
Call an elephant a rabbit only if it gives you comfort to feel that you are about to be trampled to death by a rabbit.
Yesterday is the past. Tomorrow is the future. But today is a gift. That's why they call it the present.
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
I believe in looking reality straight in the face and denying it.
Resolve to keep yourself happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Cynicism is disappointed idealism.
There are no limits on our future if we don't put limits on our people.
And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.
Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as a self-governing people to hear everything relevant.
Liberty without learning is always in peril, and learning without liberty is always in vain.
Conformity is the jailor of freedom and the enemy of growth.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.
Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
About one-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
Far from being a classless society, Communism is governed by an elite as steadfast in its determination to maintain its prerogatives as any oligarchy known to history.
Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
In the long run we are all dead.
I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself is in many ways extremely objectionable.
Everyone wants to go to heaven but no one wants to die.
It is a disconcerting thought to think that it might be only an abstact concept, called law, which is preventing a large segment of society from killing each other.
Academia forcibly tells you about all the great men who have changed the world for the better. But they wouldn't notice him if he were standing right in front of them.
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.
I once said, "We will bury you," and I got in trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.
Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all!
If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.
Get rid of the devil and the priest will have nothing to do.
Election year is that period when politicians get free speech mixed up with cheap talk.
Let us worship God again in simplicity, instead of making a fool of him in splendid edifices.
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appaling silence of the good people.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me.
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
Next week there can't be any crisis. My schedule is already full.
Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.
All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism.
The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.
The most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. My definition of the word is as follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it that way all the time.
It is stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil, when he is the only explanation of it.
To be a revolutionary is to love your life enough to change it, to choose struggle instead of exile, to risk everything with only the glimmering hope of a world to win.
To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
Television--a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done.
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
Democracy does not guarantee equality, only equality of opportunity.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common that unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
It's a matter of having principles. It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.
When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
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