Anyone who interprets or defines your rights controls your destiny.
Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty.
Bad law is the worst sort of tyranny.
Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
The world must be made safe for democracy.
