Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules, and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.

The First Amendment reads more like a dream than a law, and no other nation, so far as I know, has been crazy enough to include such a dream among its fundamental legal documents. I defend it because it has been so successful for two centuries in preserving our freedom and increasing our vitality, knowing that all arguments in support of it are certain to sound absurd.

The only proof he needed of the existence of God was music. [What K.V. wants his tombstone to read]

What is the purpose of life? ... To be the eyes, and ears, and conscience of the creator of the universe; you fool.

We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.

Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the universe.

How happy is the blameless vessle's lot!  The world forgetting, by the world forgot.  Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!  Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.  Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."

Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.