If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

It does look as if Massachusetts were in a fair way to embarrass me with kindnesses this year. In the first place, a Massachusetts judge has just decided in op…

All you have to fear is your mother's cooking.

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination.

These extremist Islamists locked me in a room and threatened to hang me because we are the democratic alternative to them. We say to young Muslims: we know tha…

In the final analysis it doesn't really matter what the political system is... We don't need perfect political systems; we need perfect participation.

Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives fo…