What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destroy it.

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

Iain Banks

Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.

Prince

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Edmund Burke

I counseled many returning missionaries. I interviewed 1,700 missionaries all over the world. My advice to them is that you should study and prepare for your life's work in a field that you enjoy.

Thomas S. Monson

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.

George Linnaeus Banks, What I Li

Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?

Terry Pratchett

I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.

Lev Grossman

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

Benicio Del Toro

Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.'

Tommy Chong

Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors

Thomas Jefferson

The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.

Douglas Hofstadter