The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.

As long as I am mayor of this city [Jersey City, New Jersey] the great industries are secure. We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, "That man is a Red, that man is a Comm

The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

In "King Henry VI, Part II," Shakespeare has Dick Butcher suggest to his fellow anti-establishment rabble-rousers, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." That action may be extreme but a similar sentiment was expressed by Thomas K. Co

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

One big pile is better than two little piles.

An older student came to Otis and said, "I have been to see a great number of teachers and I have given up a great number of pleasures. I have fasted, been celibate and stayed awake nights seeking enlightenment. I have given up everything I was aske

If Karl, instead of writing a lot about Capital, had made a lot of Capital, it would have been much better.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Sorry 'bout that sweat, honey. That's just holy water.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

There is perhaps in every thing of any consequence, secret history, which it would be amusing to know, could we have it authentically communicated.

Men freely believe that what they wish to desire.

Look ere ye leap.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.