The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood. - George Bernard Shaw

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.

But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.