“That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.”

The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.

It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.

Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.

Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.

The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.

Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.

An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.

I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.

But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country.

Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country.

We must be loyal to the forum of our government.

A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.

The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.

But when I talk to people who are Darwinists or evolutionists and say, ‘Well, how did life begin’ – they’re… they don’t have an answer. I mean, they have an answer, but it’s a BS answer. It’s an answer that wouldn’t make sense to a small child.

Humility does not mean to think yourself less, but to less think of yourself.

A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. Only you didn’t tell it like it was, you told it like you thought it should have been.

I was hooked on writing. I mean, where else can you get paid for sticking your nose into somebody else’s business?

To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.

The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin’s Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Coke and Bacon that subjects of the King are by no means necessarily subjects of Parliament.

There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city.