“Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in our desire to be secure we lose our ability to be free.”

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.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.

My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.

The true measure of a successful leader is their ability to discover the hidden talent in those they lead and challenge them to achieve greatness.

All humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes.

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.

The single thing which makes any man happiest is the realization that he has worked up to the limits of his ability, his capacity. It’s all the better, of course, if this work has made a contribution to knowledge, or toward moving the human race a little farther forward.