"Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain."

"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives."

"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."

"Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth."

"Creativity is seeing what everyone has seen, but thinking what no one else thought. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins."

"Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times."

"I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman."