Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren’t able to live in the place you called home.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

The honor of a nation is its life.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

He who is brave is free.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.

My life has been very full.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.