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"Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give the fullest freedom for activities of private persons and groups who often identify their own interests, essentially selfish, with the general welfare."
"If you think there's a bogeyman - 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."
"Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it."
"The United States is not a nation of people which in the long run allows itself to be pushed around."
"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."
"After the earthquake and the fire comes the still, small voice."
"The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat."
"Recreation is nothing but a change of work-an occupation for the hands by those who live by their brains, or for the brains by those who live by their hands."
"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?"
"Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds."