J.S.B. Morse

“The most purely free decision one can make—and thus, the highest order of spirit on Earth—is believing in something without evidential knowledge.”

“You eat the wealthy, sir, and it will be your last meal.”

“If you require force to promote your ideal, there is something wrong with your ideal.”

“Harming one’s unalienable rights in order to serve justice is injustice.”

“If you live life so cautiously as to never fail, you end up failing at life itself.”

“A pure heart is superlatively rare and even more attractive.”

“People aren't crazy, they’re just reacting normally to an abnormally crazy world.”

“That’s life. It’s a series of knock-down, drag-out fights with yourself and others that will leave you lying on the ground bruised and bloody and drooling all over your shag carpeting. But all that doesn’t define you, your reaction to it does. Your environment doesn’t make you who you are, your choices — your beliefs, do.”

“No one can take away your Natural Rights, but they can do great damage making you think they can.”

“A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.”

“Right isn't always legal.”

“It seems the more we know, the less we believe.”

“The choice to believe is yours. It’s the only thing that truly is.”

“The only valid faith today is disbelief.”

“When people start talking about Right and Left, they stop talking about right and wrong.”

“The more laws that are created, the closer we get to lawlessness.”

“Making universal prosperity a right is the surest way to universal poverty.”

“Ironically, the only people anyone believes these days are the skeptics.”

“If you spend enough time with someone who doubts you, you can't help but believe them.”

“You will never find the perfect person but you might be lucky enough to find someone who wants to be.”