“I know of no book which has been a source ofbrutality and sadistic conduct, both public and private,that can compare with the Bible”

“True strength lies in our knowing, individually, what we are, who we are, and what we want.”

“I am the last and highest court of appeal in detection.”

“Private choices are not private; they all have public consequences...Our society is the sum total of what millions of individuals do in their private lives. That sum total of private behavior has worldwide public consequences of enormous magnitude. There are no completely private choices.”

“These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.”

“The primary purpose of reading the Bible is not to know the Bible but to know God.”

“I know what the world has done to my brother and how narrowly he has survived it. And I know, which is much worse, and this is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen, and for which neither I nor time nor history will ever forgive them, that they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives and do not know it and do not want to know it. One can be, indeed one must strive to become, tough and philosophical concerning destruction and death, for this is what most of mankind has been best at since we have heard of man. (But remember: most of mankind is not all of mankind.) But it is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime.”