In The United States, To An Unprecedented

Storybook Happiness Involves Every Form Of Pleasant Thumb-twiddling; True Happiness Involves The Full Use Of One's Powers And Talents.

I Think That All Human Systems Require Continuous Renewal. They Rigidify. They Get Stuff In The Joints. They Forget What They Cared About. The Forces Against It Are Nostalgia And The Enormous Appeal Of Having Things The Way They Always Have Been, Appeals To A Supposedly Happy Past. But We've Got To Move On.

All Laws Are An Attempt To Domesticate The Natural Ferocity Of The Species.

Men Of Integrity, By Their Very Existence, Rekindle The Belief That As A People We Can Live Above The Level Of Moral Squalor. We Need That Belief; A Cynical Community Is A Corrupt Community.

Some People Strengthen The Society Just By Being The Kind Of People They Are.