"I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it."

"You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered."

"The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure."

"The noblest search is the search for excellence."

"It is a subtle truth that justice is the harmonious balance between individual liberty and collective good."

"Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone."

"The unquiet republic of the maze Of planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness."

"No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country."