“An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.”

Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.

Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.

The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression.

Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.

Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.

Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor.

They cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

Men may be born free

Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.

Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…

We deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.

On her charm’d way But hasten to her task of beauty Scarcely yet begun.

The resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other;

I’ll go to a restaurant where I’ve never been before, and someone will say, “I don’t have anything big for you to eat.” I used to be a little salty about that, but at the end of the day

It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.

It’s very gratifying when that’s what you’re going for, and you can hear the reactions in all the places that you intended.

I’m able to express myself and not get made fun of for it.

But you will still look Chinese, and when people meet you, they’ll see a Chinese girl no matter how well you speak English.