"Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."

"True wealth is not measured in gold, but in the belief that the echo of our deeds ripples through eternity."

"Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?"

"Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted."

"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America."

"And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world."

"“There's no free will,” says the philosopher; “To hang is most unjust.” “There is no free will,” assents the officer;  “We hang because we must.”"

"Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi."