Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.

It's always wrong to hate, but it's never wrong to love.