If you believe in everything, everything is sacred. If you believe in nothing, everything is sacred.

You wanna be a pacifist, it's not just giving up guns and knives and clubs and fists and angry words, but giving up the weapons of privilege, and going into the world completely disarmed.

Loyalty to the country always; loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

Fifties, Sixties, Seventies, Nineties - that whole idea of decade packages. Things don't happen that way, that packaging of time is a journalistic convenience that they use to trivialize and to dismiss important events and important ideas.

I always thought that anybody who told me I couldn't live in the past was trying to get me to forget something that if I remembered it would get 'em in serious trouble.