“Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time and country have been waged by many good as well as by evil men. Nationalism is a relatively recen...”

“Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.”

“...Surely the Board knows what democracy is. It is the line that forms on the right. It is the dont in dont shove. It is the hole in the stuffed shirt through which the sawdust slowly trickles; it ...”

“It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of performing these small ceremonies regularly, and being as nearly accurate as possible with regard to the times. You must not mind stopping in the mi...”

“It's lucky I was there. Then again, who am I kidding? I'm in most places at least once, and in 1943, I was just about everywhere.”

“Madness is freedom and some may only perceive its Insanity.”

“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, runningthat's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the b...”

“Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness.”

“Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.”

“Ever since the Enlightenment era in the 17th and 18th Centurieswhich, among other things, gave birth to the U.S. Constitution and the de facto motto E Pluribus Unum (out of the many, one)interfaith...”

“Ever since the Enlightenment era in the 17th and 18th Centuries—which, among other things, gave birth to the U.S. Constitution and the de facto motto E Pluribus Unum (out of the many, one)—interfai...”