God and Nature first made us what we are and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

At some future period not very distant as measured by centuries the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

All my life Americans have been accustomed to thinking of theirs as 'the richest freest' country in the world. By most measurements it was long a contender for that honor and - among the larger countries if equal weight were given to wealth and indices of freedom - probably did deserve to be so described.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it even as a temporary measure is to betray it.

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

Without sound conservation and management measures fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.