Louis

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force...

Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.

Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Form follows function.

Golf is very much like a love affair, if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun, if you do, it breaks your heart. Don't break your heart, but flirt with the possibility.

If you can't return a favor, pass it on.

Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars...God, if you wish for our love,Fling us a handful of stars

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.

Love is a great beautifier.

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.

Housekeeping ain't no joke.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow them.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.

Most people die at the last minute others 20 years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.

In your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go and sheltered so may thrive and grow.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world. ... Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it is the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship, relying ... on its cycles and elements, helpless without its protective embrace.

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Love builds highways out of dead ends.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.

It is as hard to take success as it is failure.

I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.

I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.

We're trying to show that we're not a little bit of England in America, but a place for Americans to gain a better perspective on their own history.

All the fundamental concepts which make up the kind of people we are today had their modern conception in the Tudor and Stuart periods. For us, that's the milk in the coconut.

What we play is life.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Keep cool and you command everybody.

The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.