"My administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens. Indeed, I believe that doing so would break with our most important traditions and values as a nation."

“No time is wasted time”

“The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans.”

“Communism has defeated itself everywhere except... in American colleges.”

“God never meant that man should scale the Heavens By strides of human wisdom. In his works, Though wondrous, he commands us in his word To seek him rather where his mercy shines.”

“Such compositions, line and color ideas, such wonders come into my mind and have stuck! - They will this time be dismissed only by being painted out...”

Source : "Morris Graves, the early works". Book by Theodore F. Wolff, published by Whitney Museum of American Art, p. 28, 1998.

“I've actually worked out more pregnant than when I wasn't.”

“If merit is not recognised, still it is merit, and it ought to be honoured as such; but if it is rewarded, it becomes valuable in the eyes of all, and everybody is encouraged to pursue that course in which merit obtains its due reward.”

Source : Speech delivered at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington Butts, London, May 24, 1870.

“An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.”

Source : Janet Biehl, Murray Bookchin (1999). “The Murray Bookchin Reader”, p.20, Black Rose Books Ltd.