“Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.”

Men may be born free

Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.

Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…

Man is a strange animal, he doesn’t like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.

An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.

A wise man does not try to hurry history.

[I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation.

Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

Successful people stick to what they are good at and find ways to make that larger.

There is no one who likes a challenge more than Tom Cruise.

Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.

I weave them into rainbows, harmonies. I feel immortality! I create immortality!

Man V. Food is the highest-rated show in the Travel Channel’s history, so clearly there’s going to be a correlation.

I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.