Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.

The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

Affection cannot be manufactored or regulated by law. If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should be free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection, so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite to violence.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show for any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become "one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions": a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness.

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.

The Night has a thousand eyes,<br> And the Day but one; <br> Yet the light of the bright world dies<br> With the dying sun. <br> The mind has a thousand eyes,<br> And the heart but one; <br> Yet the light of a whole life dies<br> When love is done.

So long as faith with freedom reigns<br> And loyal hope survives, <br> And gracious charity remains<br> To leaven lowly lives; <br> While there is one untrodden tract<br> For intellect or will, <br> And men are free to think and act,<br> Life is worth living still.