It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.

I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.