“To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civili...” — Arnold J. Toynbee Quote

“To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.”

“As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.”

“Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.”

“A life which does not go into action is a failure.”

“The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.”

“I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.”

“We should never overestimate an audience's culture, but we should never underestimate their intelligence.”

“Richard M. Helms, the first director of Central Intelligence to rise from the ranks, was fond of saying that the CIA had been founded to make sure that there would never be another Pearl Harbor. Underlying this mission impossible was the wishful supposition that an America that knew everything could prevent anything.”

“To get a FISA warrant to spy on a suspected spy, the feds go before a super-secret court located in a sealed room in the Department of Justice. With no defense lawyers present, they need only show probable cause that the target is an 'agent of a foreign power' engaged in intelligence gathering against the United States.”

“And I believe only with a strong America will we defeat this radical group, this apocalyptic group called ISIS. That's why when I'm president we are going to rebuild our intelligence capabilities. And they're going to tell us where the terrorists are. And a rebuilt U.S. military is going to destroy these terrorists.”

“Doesn't assuming that an intelligence created these perfect conditions require far less faith than believing that a life-sustaining Earth just happened to beat the inconceivable odds to come into being?”