“Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.”

Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defence, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties which make the defence of our nation worthwhile.

Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.

Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.

Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional. All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle.

We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.

Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don’t worry about it, that’s the way we learn.

The censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.

A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over.

Citizenship is the right to have rights.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don’t know, but they do.

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.

What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.

What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.

Compared with the mobilization of all opponents to the government as such, the capturing of lower middle-class votes was a temporary phenomenon.

Unite all people of African ancestry of the world to one great body to establish a country and absolute government of their own.

It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard.

What luck, for governments, that the people are stupid.