The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."

A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth.

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

The devil is compromise.

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.

The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.

A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.

Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.

You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

Do not use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'

Don't use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.

A community is like a ship everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

To live is to war with trolls.

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

A fairly good crow or a raven can lay pretty nearly as good an egg.

It's a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.

It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

All we're getting from the Democratic majority in Congress and from this White House is more bailouts, more spending, more planned stimulus, more deficits and debt, and the American people have had it.

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society.

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

I don't know the vast majority of you personally, and it may sound kind of corny, but I really feel as if we've become friends through the years. And you've been with me during a lot of good times and some very difficult ones. I can't tell you how grateful I am.